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The Role Of Extraversion, Sensitivity To Music Reward, And Music Tempo On Word Recall, Mingyang Xu
The Role Of Extraversion, Sensitivity To Music Reward, And Music Tempo On Word Recall, Mingyang Xu
Undergraduate Honours Theses
The Mozart Effect refers to the theory that exposure to classical music will make people more intelligent. The study explored whether the benefits of classic music extended to memory processes such as immediate word recall, while considering individual differences in extroversion and sensitivity to music reward. To test this, 56 first-year psychology students completed Eysenck’s Personality Inventory, the Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire and a music experience questionnaire. Participants then were exposed to a three-minute Mozart excerpt that was either slow, regular or fast tempo, then completed an immediate recall task. A 2X2X3 ANOVA was conducted, a significant interaction effect was …
The Effects Of Arousal Induction On Infants' Tempo Preferences, Erin G. Eisen
The Effects Of Arousal Induction On Infants' Tempo Preferences, Erin G. Eisen
Undergraduate Honours Theses
Previous research has demonstrated that infants have a natural preference to listen to fast temporal sequences over intermediate temporal sequences (Steffler, 2012, unpublished thesis). The present study seeks to explore whether or not infant tempo preferences are context-dependent, specifically examining the effect of arousal levels on tempo preferences. In the current study, 6- to 8-month-old infants' preference for tempo was evaluated using a head-turn preference procedure, following an arousal induction phase, in which the infants' environment was altered with the aim of lowering their physiological arousal. Infants showed a significant 3-way interaction between side of presentation, first stimulus presentation, and …