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| Why do patients demonstrate a nonorganic hearing loss? |
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Definition
| adults seeking financial or other gain, children seeking attention, persons with psychological disorders |
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| When an audiologist has a patient showing a hearing loss that he or she does not believe to be true, what should be done? |
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Definition
| ABR or OAE because they are objective and non-behavioral |
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| A person displaying a nonorganic hearing loss will demonstrate inconsistencies in what? |
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Definition
| behavior vs. audiological test results, SRT vs. PTA, air-bone gap and type A tympanogram, no shadow curve |
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Term
| Why do patients malinger? |
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Definition
| compensation cases (e.g., industrial, military, workman's comp), in cases of children, to get attention |
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Term
| A behavioral hearing test designed to detect of false or exaggerated hearing loss is the |
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