SLP 108- All Quiz Questions (Final Prep)
A patient with aphasia who is able to understand speech but has difficulty expressing speech is known to have ___________.
Broca's aphasia
Analysis of the electrochemical code is prepared for an articulatory plan and sent to the orofacial cells in the primary motor cortex takes place in ____________.
Broca's area
Contraction of the stylopharyngeus muscle for swallowing is innervated by ______________
CN IX
Contraction of the facial muscles is innervated by _____________.
CN VII
A patient with Bell's Palsy will have an absent acoustic reflex because _________________.
CN VII innervates the stapedius muscle
Only _____________ has just sensory function.
CN VIII
The auditory nerve is _______________.
CN VIII
A patient with Cerebral Palsy may have damage to ______________ resulting in articulation difficulties.
CN XII
If a large vocal tract generally predicts a low F0, how can a male opera singer reach high notes?
He can tense and lengthen his vocal folds
Increasing your vocal fundamental frequency will
Increase the longitudinal stress on the vocal folds
A patient with Parkinson's Disease may demonstrate speech that has been affected by deficiencies in both the respiratory and phonological systems.
True
A patient with spasmodic dysphonia has random breathiness due to sudden adduction of the vocal folds during speech.
True
CHECK THIS**** The articulatory system processes activity that is considered subglottal.
True
CHECK THIS****** The major regulator of intensity is increased mass per unit length of the vocal folds.
True
Consonants like /f/ as in 'fun' or /s/ as in 'bus' are voiced and the vocal folds are adducted.
True
Fundamental Frequency is controlled by the size of the vibrating mass.
True
In general, vowels produce the greatest acoustic energy
True
In speech breathing more air is typically inhaled than in quiet breathing.
True
Relaxation of the levator palatini is needed for the production of most phonemes.
True
Speech breathing is the regulation of breathing for voice and speech production.
True
The Adam's Apple is the most prominent anterior point of the thyroid cartilage
True
The alveolar ridge is part of the hard palate behind the top front teeth.
True
The myoelastic aerodynamic theory of voice production tells us that vocal fold vibration occurs passively due to the interaction of the aerodynamics and the biomechanical properties of the vocal fold tissues.
True
The purpose of the intrinsic muscles is to provide shaping of the tongue surface.
True
Within the geriatric population, individuals may run out of the raw material of air before they finish a sentence.
True
Auditory fibers bundle together to form the ____________.
VIII cranial nerve
The electrochemical energy of the acoustic signal ascends the auditory pathways to the cortex and are FIRST analyzed in __________________.
Wernicke's area
The basilar membrane may be thought of as _______________.
a high cut-off, low pass filter
The external intercostal muscles are
a series of muscles between each pair of ribs that are angled inferiorly and anteriorly
A formant is ______________.
a vocal tract resonance
A person with a cleft palate may have a nasal quality to their voice because
air flows through the cleft and resonates in the nasal cavity
The traveling wave theory describes
all of the above (how sound move through the inner ear, how hair cells are sheared, how fluid movement affects the hair cells)
A person with damage to the inner ear may have _______________.
all of the above (sensorineural hearing loss, a severe hearing loss, a profound hearing loss)
In the case of spasmodic dysphonia
all the possible answers are correct
The following statements are true regarding pleural linkage:
all the possible answers are correct (connects lungs to rib cage & diaphragm, fluid holds the pleural layers together but allows sliding, lungs are pulled along as rib cage and diaphragm move)
The patient with Parkinson's Disease
all the possible answers are correct (may not have good muscular control, may run out of air before the end of a sentence, may speak very quietly)
The cricothyroid joint
allows the cricoid cartilage to rock forward and downward to achieve vocal fold elongation
The cricothyroid joint
allows the thyroid cartilage to rock forward and downward to achieve vocal fold elongation
The place behind the upper teeth used for articulation of consonants such as /t/ and /d/ is called the ______________.
alveolar ridge
The middle ear is _________________.
an air filled space
Boyle's Law describes
an inverse relationship between volume and pressure
The terms inhalation and exhalation
are equivalent to the terms inspiration and expiration
The brainstem is located __________________________________.
at the bottom of the brain at the back of the skull
Unwanted air escaping through the glottis during speech may give the voice a quality of
breathiness
The velopharyngeal port is open for
breathing and production of nasals
The hearing mechanism can be thought of as a transducer. A transducer ____________.
changes one form of energy into another
The Organ of Corti contains _____________.
cilia
A person with damage to the outer or middle ear may have a _________________.
conductive hearing loss
The facial nerve is ___________ and innervates ___________.
cranial nerve VII, the stapedial muscle
The paired arytenoid cartilages articulate with the cricoid cartilage by means of the _________________ joint
cricoarytenoid
The abduction and adduction of the vocal folds is achieved by movement of the
cricoarytenoid joints
The abduction and adduction of the vocal folds is achieved by the movement of the
cricoarytenoid joints
The cricothyroid joint results in cartilage movement upon contraction of the _________ muscle.
cricothyroid muscle
The internal intercostal muscles are primarily active
during expiration
The external intercostal muscles are active
during inhalation
CHECK THIS****** The internal intercostal muscles are active
during inhalation and exhalation
During swallowing the larynx is protected by the
epiglottis
The _____________ protects the larynx during swallowing
epiglottis
The cartilage responsible for protecting the larynx during swallowing is the
epiglottis
The function of the Eustachian Tube is to ______________.
equalize air pressure between the atmosphere and the middle ear
The frontal lobe is responsible for _______________
executive function
CHECK THIS****** In speech breathing exhalation is faster and takes up less of the respiratory cycle.
false
A vocal tract resonance is a
formant
Respiration
generally, refers to the process of gas exchange at the cellular level
The ______________ muscle pulls the tongue up and forward for /i/ as in 'eat'.
genioglossus
The space between the vocal folds is called the
glottis
The __________ muscle pulls the tongue down and back as in 'ah'.
hyoglossus
The ____________ muscle pulls the tongue down and back as in 'ah'
hyoglossus
The major regulator of intensity is
increased lung pressure
The major muscles of the lower airway that function during exhalation is the
internal intercostals
______________ muscles run within the body of the tongue to provide shaping of the tongue surface.
intrinsic
When the diaphragm contracts
it flattens downward, expanding the volume of the lungs
Approximately 90% of the general population processes speech and language in the ___________________.
left hemisphere
The muscle that raises and lowers the velum is the __________________
levator palatini
Acoustic energy is transduced to mechanical energy in the _______________.
middle ear
To produce the /u/ as in 'true', the ____________ muscle rounds the lips
obicularis oris
Abduction refers to the _____ movement of the vocal folds, and adduction refers to the ______ movement of the vocal folds
opening, closing
A singer such as Steven Tyler or Adele may have vocal nodules or contact ulcers due to
overuse of the vocal folds
Most of the _________________ travels to the rest of the body by exiting or entering the spinal cord.
peripheral nervous system
The conversion of aerodynamic energy into acoustic energy is called
phonation
The outer ear consists of many parts including the
pinna
Relaxation of the levator palatini is needed for _____________
production of most phonemes
To produce the /i/ as in 'eat', the ______________ muscle spreads the lips.
risorius
The inner ear consists of many parts including the
semicircular canals
Orofacial part of the primary motor cortex ____________________.
sends commands to the brainstem for the execution of the plan (speech)
The velum is the
soft palate
The middle ear consists of many parts including the
stapes
A communication disorder that involves simultaneous abduction and adduction of the vocal folds is
stuttering
CHECK THIS**** The ____________ muscle pulls the tongue up and back for the /u/ 'loop'
styloglossus
The ______________ muscle pulls the tongue up and back for the /u/ as in 'you'.
styloglossus
The articulatory system processes activity that is considered _________________.
supraglottis
The _____________ are needed to obstruct airflow in the production of /s/.
teeth
Wernicke's area is located in the _____________.
temporal lobe
The Bernoulli effect tells us that
the air pressure will decrease as the air flows through the vocal tract in an area of constriction
What is the largest muscle of respiration?
the diaphragm
The major muscles of the lower airway that function during inspiration are
the diaphragm and the external intercostals
The space between the vocal folds is
the glottis
Raising and lowering the velum involves
the levator palatini
A patient with multiple sclerosis has breakdowns in ____________________ insulating the neuron.
the myelin sheath
Infant and pre-school children are prone to middle ear infections to __________________.
the position of the Eustachian tube
Speech Breathing is
the regulation of breathing for voice and speech production
Fundamental frequency is controlled by
the size of vibrating mass
In order to produce nasal consonants ________________
the velopharyngeal port must be open
The lungs are mechanically attached to the thoracic cavity by
the visceral pleura, which encases the outside of the lungs, and the parietal pleura, attached to the inside of the thoracic cavity, and pleural fluid between the two membranes
The mean Fo of men's voices, on average, is significantly lower than the mean Fo of women's voices because
the vocal folds of men usually have greater mass
Auditory hair cells are arranged in tonotopic order. This means that ______________.
they are frequency specific
The congenitally deaf speaker may have a breathy quality to their voice because
they have had no auditory input upon which to develop speech
Contraction of the external intercostal muscles results in
upward and outward expansion of the rib cage, expanding the volume of the lungs
Another name for the soft palate is the ____________
velum
The myoelastic aerodynamic theory of voice production tells us that
vocal fold vibration occurs passively due to the interaction of the aerodynamics and the biomechanical properties of the vocal fold tissues
The most powerful phonemes that produce the most acoustic energy are ____________.
vowels
The risorius is needed in the production of
/i/ in 'each'
The obicularis oris is needed in the production of
/u/ in 'true'
Average fundamental frequency during reading aloud has been measured at
215 Hz for women and 115 Hz for men
