...The Music Effect Can music really effect mood, behavior, and the way we think? The answer is yes, with a big fat Y! There are certain types or genres of music that affect not just your physicality but your mind as well. There is evidence that it greatly impacts the way we perceive. A mere snippet of a song can trigger memories as vivid as anything. A tune can induce emotions ranging from overwhelming joy to deep sorrow and can drive listeners into a state of frenzy. Music can also kick a long haunting addiction, boost your immune system, even repair brain damage. In this paper we’ll explore how the effects of music on a person can be just as dangerous or therapeutic as some of the worlds most powerful drugs, which can be a scary thought. Lets jump right into things. I believe by now researchers know beyond a reasonable doubt that music and mood are closely interrelated. But, can it really change perception? The way we perceive the world or people? “A new study, which has just been published in Neuroscience Letters, provides both behavioral and physiological evidence that the emotions evoked by music can be transferred to the sense of vision, and can influence how the emotions in facial expressions are perceived.” I can personally relate to this. Music is my escape and I love it more than anything, I would not know what to do without it. Depending on my mood at the time depends on what type of music I listen too. For example, if I am in a good mood I might throw...
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...research process Eating chocolate affects memory Eating chocolate increases memory power Eating chocolate affects memory Eating chocolate makes no difference to memory power IV= Chocolate eaten DV= Memory Firstly give a person a memory test to remember 10 numbers in order then give the same person a bar of chocolate and give them another number test with different numbers, if with chocolate, more numbers are remembered, then chocolate has an impact on memory. To control confounding variables, if you repeat it, use people of a similar age so that their natural memory powers are similar. People with similar IQ’s, and the same time of day. Rabbits are more aggressive than guinea pigs Rabbits are more aggressive than guinea pigs. Rabbits have different levels of aggression to guinea pigs. Rabbits and guinea pigs have the same level of aggression. IV= Rabbits and guinea pigs DV= levels of aggression Get someone to put a stick into each of the animals cages, the one that bites the stick and tries to kill is the more aggressive on. Do the tests at the same type of day, use animals that are of a similar, give them the same stick and the same temperature. The more positive a person’s mood the better they can concentrate The more positive a person’s mood the better they can concentrate The mood of a person affects how they can concentrate The mood of a person does not have any effect on how they can concentrate IV= the mood of a person DV= the levels of concentration ...
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...of Music on Human Performance and Behavior Thesis Statement: Music positively affects human performance and affects the emotions of a person, negatively or positively, depending on what genre and tempo of the music. Introduction I’m a huge fan of music; who am I kidding? All people love music. Music has been part of life for a very long time; it’s been part of history, it is used to tell tales of heroism and courage, among other things. Most people love listening to music while working; it keeps them focused, composed and keeps them from freaking out due to intense stress. People also love listening to music when they exercise; they listen to fast-tempo music to keep their heart rate stable. My point is music has an effect or is a determining factor on human performance. In this report, I’ll be focusing in three aspects of the human performance and how music affects them, which may be positively or negatively. These three aspects are Physical, Cognitive, and Emotional. Main points Physically, music positively affects human performance. When in an intense workout, music covers or drowns out the brain’s cries of fatigue. The muscles will send signals to the brain that it is tired and wants to stop, but music will try to cover out those signals. Listening to music keeps one’s mind from tiredness or fatigue. Listening to music not only keeps one’s mind from the pain of exercise, but also helps use one’s energy efficiently. A study showed that cyclists who listen to music require...
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...DOI: 10.1037/a0026937 Can Sad Music Really Make You Sad? Indirect Measures of Affective States Induced by Music and Autobiographical Memories Jonna K. Vuoskoski and Tuomas Eerola University of Jyvaskyla ¨ ¨ The present study addressed music’s disputed ability to induce genuine sadness in listeners by investigating whether listening to sad music can induce sadness-related effects on memory and judgment. Related aims were to explore how the different mechanisms of music-induced emotions are involved in sadness induced by familiar, self-selected music and unfamiliar, experimenter-selected music, and whether the susceptibility to music-induced sadness is associated with trait empathy. One hundred twenty participants were randomly assigned into four conditions with different tasks: listening to unfamiliar sad or neutral music, or to self-selected sad music, or recalling a sad autobiographical event and writing about it. The induced affective states were measured indirectly using a word recall task and a judgment task where participants rated the emotions expressed by pictures depicting facial expressions. The results indicate that listening to sad music can indeed induce changes in emotion-related memory and judgment. However, this effect depends, to some extent, on the music’s relevance to the listener, as well as on the personality attributes of the listener. Trait empathy contributed to the susceptibility to sadness induced by unfamiliar music, while autobiographical memories...
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...Research Methods Assignment 1. The research question is whether exposure to sun and listening to familiar music affects a person’s mood. 2. The research hypothesis is that a person who is exposed to the sun and listens to familiar music would be in a better mood than a person not exposed to the sun and listens to unfamiliar music. 3. The population of interest for the research could theoretically include all group ages and their status in life. For the sake of the research, our sample would be students between ages 22-27 from 4 different universities (sample size of at least 60 people to get significant results). 4. We will divide our sample into 4 different groups Sun exposure + familiar music (group 1) | Sun exposure + non-familiar music (group 2) | No son exposure + familiar music (group 3) | No sun exposure + non-familiar music (group 4) | 5. The independent variables in this research are sun exposure and listening to familiar music. The dependent variable is the person’s mood. Sun exposure can be practically defined by determining a certain amount of time from which we can conclude that a person has been exposed to sun (i.e. 30 minutes). The definition for familiar music can be determined by a pilot before we begin our research on a population which is not part of the sample through which we can find out which songs are familiar (and conversely non-familiar). This way we can define practically and operationally which songs are familiar and which...
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...How we hear and the Effects that Music has on the Body, Mind and Emotions. By Ryan Determan Introduction A. Music is the most universal language do to the sounds and beats that can be created and passed on to different people and cultures. B. These sounds and beats that we call music has a substantial influence on our minds and bodies. C. Different kinds of music effect people differently like some kinds of music are calming to the body and mind; while other kinds, excite the body and mind. D. Not only are we affected by the beats and melodies of the music but also the lyrics that are sung. E. In order for me to explain the effects of music on both the mind and body I will use examples of cause and effect and viewpoints of people conducted on surveys including different perspectives. Body, mind and why How we interpret or hear sounds 1. In order for us to understand what music is we have to find out what is music and how we hear it. 2. When we hear something, it starts in the form of an air presser wave. a. Then it hits the outer ear where its funneled into the ear canal where it reaches and vibrates the ear drum; from there the presser wave energy is transformed into mechanical energy into the middle of the ear where it vibrates three very small bones simultaneously these bones are called the Ossicles. "These bones create different unique movements that embodies the frequencies that embodies the frequencies...
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...Many scientists believe that music/audio have an immense effect on our brains. 1 Without music/audio, scientists believe our brains use long - term potentiation (LTP) to receive and comprehend information that is given to us. According to Michael Rugg, LTP is the “lasting communication established between two neurons when they are stimulated simultaneously”. When a person goes through an experience, a pair of neurons transfer information through a synapse, which is known as a chemical conversation. Once this happens, the reaction starts a continuous connection between the neurons streaming and creating a pattern. The event then becomes familiar to the person.2 We want to test how the LTP is affected by different music/audio. According to Mark A. W. Andrews, a...
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...The Effects of Music in Movies Music is used in everyday life. Some people use it for relaxing, some for learning and some as a profession. It’s undeniable that music has a special place in your life at some point. The sound of one note, one chord, can take you to a certain time or place in your life like a childhood memory, your wedding day or even a movie. Composers are known for having this ability to pull on the emotions and change the mood of their audience. One of the most underrated aspects for music is how filmmakers use these ablilities when choosing music for their movies. The role of music in a motion picture is in direct relation to the level of ambiguity in a particular scene. The more ambiguous a scene is, the more filmmakers rely on the music to develop a mood that interprets the meaning of the scene for their audience. Therefore, music provides a cue for the listener to tell whether the narrative is suppose to be perceived as scary, romantic, funny, sad, or happy--ultimately, affecting the audience's mood. Horror movies are great examples of that concept. Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), is a perfect example of how a music can tell its audience what's about to come. The most memorable scene in the film was the brutal shower stabbing scene with Janet Leigh. The use of music in this scene allows the viewer to achieve a fear of the unknown. As Leigh is showering, the camera view point is of Bates walking into her room. Then, the music gets eerie and scary. The...
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...Second Semester, 2016 INTRODUCTION: This analysis is for Coca-Cola advertisement, our goal is learn about methods used to attract audience attention and interests for a specific product or service or brand through a systematic preparation and blend of pictures ,music ,texts ,colors ,sounds ,…that make an apparent and interior meaning for them.so the primary purpose is to make a perfect ads with no disturbance or complexity to audience. ************ --} Let’s start the analysis with: 1) Visual: * Real or Imaginary? This ad is real, and part of our day life. * People: people here were happy, lovely &energetic, the ads focuses on youth people that their ages are between (18_40)year because people at this age make a lot adventures that make them thirsty and Coca-Cola want to make its beverage the first option comes to their mind, and there was a diversity of people because of the difference in race, sex, place and seasons, this shows that the ads is for all youth people around the world, and Coca-Cola company share this people their great lovely and friendly times & memories. * Objects: : Coca-Cola shows people its international beverage and differentiate it effectively .It is also attracting youth people to try its beverage and feel the freshness and the great taste.it also relates the image of friendship and happy life adventures to its beverage, it is positioning itself effectively. Another thing Coca-Cola tried to make an ad that people love to watch...
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...Music is an important and extremely useful tool in the way we learn and to deny its power is a waste of a truly wonderful resource” (Kristian David Olson). Though some would look at music as a small footnote in the progression of humanity, it is in fact a much greater force; for some, it defines their very existence. The fact is, music is a driving force in society; it has been present since the dawn of man. The average person spends several hours a day listening to music, whether they see it as a main activity or just as something to take up space in the background. It is not surprising, then, that music has a great effect on how humans think and act, possibly even affecting intelligence. Several studies have been conducted on this theory; though some results are questionable, the consensus view seems to be that music has the capacity for both positive and negative effects. As a background activity, listening to music has been shown to positively affect mood, productivity, and even intelligence. As stated on the Reverse Spins website: “simply listening to music in the background while doing an arduous task can make it seem much easier, or in some cases […] ease the strain of an activity” (Olson). Whether it is merely a distraction from the stress of a situation or genuinely lifts the mood of the listener, music has been shown in several studies to increase productivity in this manner. In both cases, the listener often finishes the activity in a shorter period of time and with...
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...In this journal, the author has showed that servicescape is vital in many social organizations, for example: restaurant and hotel, etc. Also, the servicescape is relied on heavily because this social organization requires a successful first impression to attract customer for business. The offer is clear. The cognitive and emotion are important factors in Human and if organization has a deeper understanding of these elements services will be upgrated. Moreover, there are so many materials to quote that the servicescape how to influence the behavior, it is social interaction between customer and customer, employee to employee, employee to customer, it includes approach and avoidance. And the servicescape is an important research that the...
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...different information about their past, they can forget to shower, clean, and eat. They can also forget how to do basic math, where...
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...satisfaction based on the affects of walk up music used during triple-A minor league baseball games. Minor league baseball has always been associated with family entertainment, and game enhancements, such as walk-up music for players, have been utilized to increase overall fan satisfaction. Walk-up music is a short clip of music that is played as a player approaches the batter’s box or the pitcher’s mound. 30 triple-A minor league teams were contacted and were questioned about their policies regarding their use of walk-up music during games. Using qualitative collection methods, this research primarily focuses on the reasoning behind front office decisions to allow players to select their own walk-up music that will utilized during home games. Information gained through a survey that was conducted during the interviews of 30 triple-A minor league baseball teams will add useful insight to future investigations that are focused on the affects of walk-up music at the minor league baseball level as well other levels of competition. Though trying to rule out extraneous variables that may affect fan satisfaction will be difficult, the investigators believe that the information gained will be beneficial to future researchers, and will hopefully be a foundation to more extensive research on the affects of music in correlation to fan satisfaction. Introduction One of the most important advances in consumer research is the recognition that people are more responsive to music that they may...
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...The philosophy of Plato and its influences on modern society concerning music In modern society music is ubiquitous. Everywhere a person goes music can be heard, from the local grocery store to the radios in cars. With all this exposure to music it would be easy to forget it is even there but how much does this constant exposure affect an individual? Is it good to be subjected to every random song that you might encounter on a day to day basis? Questions concerning the effects of music on people have been around for a long time, going back as far as ancient Greece. While this paper will not attempt to cover the complete body of literature this topic entails nor will it attempt to answer these questions, it will examine one of their most notable philosophers, Plato, and see how his opinions concerning music and its effects on behavior on individuals and society at large match up with the beliefs of today. Plato felt that music could have a profound effect on individuals, for good or for ill, and could shape society at large. In Plato's Republic we find Socrates discussing with Glaucon what proper modes of music should be included in the education of the guardians of their ideal state. By this point in the Republic guardians have been defined as individuals who are both fierce to enemies of the state and gentle to its citizens.(Plato) To this end the two men describe at great length the types of music that encourage or accompany all manner of behaviors and proceed to eliminate...
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...The fact that the music of films often has powerful effects on its audience is undisputed. Careful examination of the reasons behind these effects, however, has been largely ignored. We tend to compare previously unassociated dramatic pieces we hear to film music - but what piece cannot be compared to film music nowadays? Every pre-composed piece or spontaneous melodic fragment is potential fodder for a cinematic soundtrack. The real questions lie in how and why people have been compelled to combine drama with music throughout history. This essay attempts to clarify some of music's manifold roles in cinema and the reasons behind them by using as an example composer Bernard Herrmann's Citizen Kane soundtrack. In order to address these issues, a brief overview of the history of music in cinema is required. The root of music in film harks back to the Greek melodrams (the precursor in both literal language and event to the melodramas of today), a cross between a play and fledgling opera in which spoken word is accompanied by music.[1] As time passed, melodrams developed into opera, giving rise to types of performances known as number opera (those composed of a collection of closed pieces) and continuous opera (those including nonstop music), divisions that film soundtracks would later echo. Wagner's full-fledged support of program music at this time, as opposed to the absolute music that had previously reigned supreme, resulted in his novel invention of leitmotifs (first used...
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