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I guess to me ([email protected]). I assume they have
instructions about only using utoronto addresses to send and to put the
course info (PSY100) in the header. I guess I send you a mark if I receive
such email?
Kathy
PSY 100 Questions on paper (alternative to experimental credit):
Ahmed, S, Fallah, S., Garrido, B., Gross, A., King, M., Morrish, T., Pereira, D., Sharma,
S., Zaszewska, E., & Pichora-Fuller, M.K. (2007). Use of portable audio devices by
university students. Canadian Acoustics, 35, 35-52.
1. What two factors must be evaluated to determine whether exposure to noise is
hazardous?
2. How does background noise affect the average listener’s preferred listening level?
3. What is one health promotion approach that could be used to increase the awareness of
students regarding healthy listening practices.
True or False
4. Industrial and military noise can damage hearing but recreational noise such as
wearing a portable audio device cannot.
True False
5. Just because the hearing thresholds of a person are in the ‘normal’ range, noise could
still have begun to damage the auditory receptor cells in the inner ear.
True False
6. The level of sound pressure output by an iPod depends on the type of headset that is
worn and the type of music that is played.
True False
7. Students wore their portable audio device more often when they were happy than when
they were bored.
True False
8. Hearing loss from exposure to excessive noise can result in permanent hearing loss for
which there is no cure.
True False
9. Only a minority of university students wear their portable audio devices in a fashion
that puts them at a serious risk of noise-related hearing loss.
True False
ANSWERS
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(2 points): level of the noise (dB, intensity, sound pressure) and duration (time, hours)
Volume is turned higher when there is more background noise.
Education (TV, magazine, in class information)
False
True
True
False
True
True