Audiology as a Profession
He is known as the father of audiology.
Who is Raymond Carhart?
This is the subjective term for intensity and is measured in phons.
What is loudness?
In this method, an audiologist would go down 10 dB when a patient hears the tone, and up 5 dB when a patient does not hear the tone.
What is the Hughson-Westlake Method?
Masking involves the presentation of sound to this ear.
What is the Non Test Ear?
This is defined as the softest level a patient hears a tone 50% of the time.
What is Hearing Threshold?
He won the Nobel prize in 1961 in physiology for work on how ear functions.
Who is Von Bekesy?
This is the lowest frequency we can hear, although it is perceived as more of a vibration than a sound.
What is 2Hz?
You start with this ear when testing bone conduction.
What is the poorer hearing ear?
This is the interaural attenuation for insert earphones.
What is 60 dB?
This stimuli is used for SRT.
What are spondees?
She is known as the mother of pediatric audiology.
Who is Marion Downs?
This is an indicator of a patient's hearing level and is described as dB above their hearing threshold.
What is dB SL?
This type of hearing loss would give a range of Word Recognition Scores from 80-100%.
What is a Conductive Hearing Loss?
This occurs when the stimulus sound is audible in the non-test ear.
What is Cross Hearing?
The clinical purpose of the SRT.
Audiology as a profession arose during this war when soldiers returned with noise-induced hearing loss.
What is World War II?
This institute is responsible for ensuring proper calibration of equipment.
What is ANSI?
Air conduction thresholds reveal this about the hearing loss.
Overmasking is the greatest problem in what type of hearing loss?
What is bilateral conductive?
A closed-set word recognition test for use on a 3 year old patient.
What is the NU-CHIPS?
It wasn't until this decade when audiologists started dispensing hearing aids.
When was the 1970's?
This is used to describe the relationship between duration of sound and its detection by the auditory system of the listener.
What is temporal integration?
The frequencies typically measured on the audiogram.
What are octave frequencies, 250-8000 Hz?
This method is used to solve the Masking Dilemma.
What is Sensorineural Acuity Level (SAL)?
The most common word lists used for attaining word recognition scores.
What are the NU-6 and W22?