SPAU 3341: Exam 3 Review (Final 1/3rd of material)

During an auditory evoked potential test,

you should ask a patient to raise their hand when they hear sounds.

• True

• False

Which of the following is not an electrophysiological measure?

• Auditory brainstem response

• Late latency potentials

• Auditory neuropathy

• Electrocochleography

• Middle latency potentials

______ enhances a low amplitude neural response by removing random noise.

• Time-locking

• Signal degradation

• A hearing test

• Signal averaging

If an infant fails a newborn hearing screening, you should tell the parents that they just have fluid in their ears.

• True

• False

What vestibular test assesses the status of the otolith organs (utricle and saccule)?

• Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs)

• Auditory brainstem response (ABR)

• Electronystagmography (ENG)

• Computerized dynamic posturography (CDP)

In cases of auditory neuropathy/dys-syncrony, otoacoustic emissions are expected to be:

• Present in both ears

• Absent in both ears

• Absent in the impaired ear, present in the normal ear

• Present in the impaired ear, absent in the normal ear

If a baby does not pass a newborn hearing screening,

our goal is to diagnose the hearing loss by ______.

• 1 month

• 3 months

• 6 months

• 9 months

What is a child conditioned to do during visual reinforcement audiometry?

• Play a game when they hear a sound

• Raise their hand when they hear a sound

• Turn their head when they hear a sound

• Say "I hear it!" when they hear a sound

Elderly patients with hearing loss are at a high risk of falling.

• True

• False

_____ refers to the sensation that the room is spinning around you.

• Dizziness

• Vertigo

• BPPV

• Rotor