Exam Preview for 41390: Understanding Individual Variability Among

Understanding Individual Variability Among Older Adults with Hearing Loss, in partnership with American Auditory Society

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1. Which of the following is NOT true of frequency compression? Improves audibility of all consonants Can improve audibility of high-frequency consonants Alters spectral cues in the processing region Strong settings may result in phoneme distortion
2. Signal distortion can occur due to which of the following? Wearing the hearing aid at a higher volume setting Wearing the hearing aid at a lower volume setting WDRC with long release time Classification errors during digital noise reduction
3. Individual ability to recognize speech in noise depends on which of the following? Amount of hearing loss Working memory capacity Age All of the above
4. Which of the following situations is likely to cause a mismatch between auditory input and a stored lexical representation that requires explicit processing to resolve? Clear speech in a quiet room Listener with mild hearing loss and a talker who is familiar to them Attending a presentation where the talker is at a distance in a noisy, reverberant auditorium Listening to audiobooks with headphones on
5. What factor is incorporated in the cepcor signal fidelity metric? Envelope fidelity Listener age Listener working memory capacity Duration of hearing loss