INTRO TO AUDIOLOGY MIDTERM
EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS WITH
100% VERIFIED ANSWERS
1. What is the role of an audiologist?
Correct Answer: Evaluate/diagnose hearing loss and balance
disorders, prescribe and fit hearing aids/hearing assistance
technology, cochlear implants, ear/hearing related surgical
monitoring, newborn hearing screening, hearing conservation
programs, hearing rehabilitation, central auditory processing
disorders (especially children), tinnitus
2. Where can audiologists work?
Correct Answer: Nonresidential health care, hospitals, schools,
industry, colleges, franchise
3. Who is the father of audiology?
Correct Answer: Dr. Raymond Carhart
4. What is the entry-level degree for a career in audiology?
Correct Answer: Au.D. or Ph.D. in Audiology
5. The work of audiologists in the area of noise is called:
Correct Answer: Industrial audiology
6. Sound is what kind of wave?
Correct Answer: Longitudinal
, 7. If two waves are out of phase:
Correct Answer: They cancel each other out
8. The psychological correlate of amplitude is:
Correct Answer: intensity/loudness
9. The psychological correlate of frequency is:
Correct Answer: pitch
10. What is fundamental frequency?
Correct Answer: lowest rate/frequency of a sound's vibration
11. What are harmonics?
Correct Answer: whole number multiples of the fundamental
frequency
12. The 1st harmonic equals:
Correct Answer: fundamental frequency
13. What produces an echo?
Correct Answer: Sound being reflected
14. Frequency is measured in:
Correct Answer: hertz (Hz)
15. Amplitude is measured in:
Correct Answer: decibels (dB)
16. Neurons of outer hair cells are:
Correct Answer: afferent
EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS WITH
100% VERIFIED ANSWERS
1. What is the role of an audiologist?
Correct Answer: Evaluate/diagnose hearing loss and balance
disorders, prescribe and fit hearing aids/hearing assistance
technology, cochlear implants, ear/hearing related surgical
monitoring, newborn hearing screening, hearing conservation
programs, hearing rehabilitation, central auditory processing
disorders (especially children), tinnitus
2. Where can audiologists work?
Correct Answer: Nonresidential health care, hospitals, schools,
industry, colleges, franchise
3. Who is the father of audiology?
Correct Answer: Dr. Raymond Carhart
4. What is the entry-level degree for a career in audiology?
Correct Answer: Au.D. or Ph.D. in Audiology
5. The work of audiologists in the area of noise is called:
Correct Answer: Industrial audiology
6. Sound is what kind of wave?
Correct Answer: Longitudinal
, 7. If two waves are out of phase:
Correct Answer: They cancel each other out
8. The psychological correlate of amplitude is:
Correct Answer: intensity/loudness
9. The psychological correlate of frequency is:
Correct Answer: pitch
10. What is fundamental frequency?
Correct Answer: lowest rate/frequency of a sound's vibration
11. What are harmonics?
Correct Answer: whole number multiples of the fundamental
frequency
12. The 1st harmonic equals:
Correct Answer: fundamental frequency
13. What produces an echo?
Correct Answer: Sound being reflected
14. Frequency is measured in:
Correct Answer: hertz (Hz)
15. Amplitude is measured in:
Correct Answer: decibels (dB)
16. Neurons of outer hair cells are:
Correct Answer: afferent
