Tuesday, May 5, 2009
14: Reflecting on What You Learned
During this semester's english class, I learned that there are 100's of search engines that can be used to find reliable information and that Google and Wikipedia are not the only sources for information. I can look at other search engines such as ask.com, citizendium, and 100's more, and find the same information or maybe even more links and facts, then just going to Google or Wikipedia. I also got to learn about how to blog. Though I do not enjoy it, atleast I know how to set up an account and use it if I ever have a job that requires us to have one. I also learned how to properly citate information in a paper. Before this class I had no idea what was suppose to go in the paranethesis if someone was referencing a source they used and whether it went at the beginning or the end of the sentence. Now that I have done so much research and learned how to reference the right way, I was able to successfully do so in my research paper. Lastly, I found out about delicious.com and believe that it is a great website to bookmark and keep all your favorite websites. Though you can bookmark and keep websites and links on your computer itself, I really liked using delicious.com because it organized your bookmarks by different keywords or in sections that were most important. I plan to use delicious.com in the future for all my important websites that I want to keep.
13: Reporting on the Application Project
After debating what type of format I could make my Application project look like, I chose to make it look it like an article from a magazine. I researched different magazine companies and am stuck between two types of magazine issues I want to create my magazine article in. The two magazine issues are called "Psychology Today" and the "Rolling Stone" magazine. However, I found that my paper was more factual and formal than would a article would be in the "Rolling Stone" magazine so I chose that the "Psychology Today" magazine to place my psychology of music article in.
I haven't gotten too far on my project yet because of other projects and take home tests I have had to work on for other classes. So far I have printed out my magazine cover and plan to create a small section on the cover to tell the readers what my article is about and what page they can find it and read about my topic. I have also been working on what information I should and should not include in my article so that the reader gets the idea of my topic but is not bored because I provide too much information.
There is still quite alot I need to get done to finish my application project. I plan to retrieve a magazine so I can paste my "Psychology Today" cover over it, so it the magazine looks related to my topic. I also need to start writing my application project and include a couple sample pictures that the reader can look at and get my meaning of what I am discussing in my article. Lastly, I also need to write the 300 word summary at the end and include any references that I used during my article. Though I have alot to do, I know I'll be able to finish in time and have it look like an actual magazine article you would see out of a real magazine.
I haven't gotten too far on my project yet because of other projects and take home tests I have had to work on for other classes. So far I have printed out my magazine cover and plan to create a small section on the cover to tell the readers what my article is about and what page they can find it and read about my topic. I have also been working on what information I should and should not include in my article so that the reader gets the idea of my topic but is not bored because I provide too much information.
There is still quite alot I need to get done to finish my application project. I plan to retrieve a magazine so I can paste my "Psychology Today" cover over it, so it the magazine looks related to my topic. I also need to start writing my application project and include a couple sample pictures that the reader can look at and get my meaning of what I am discussing in my article. Lastly, I also need to write the 300 word summary at the end and include any references that I used during my article. Though I have alot to do, I know I'll be able to finish in time and have it look like an actual magazine article you would see out of a real magazine.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
11b: Planning Your Application Project
Similar to what I said in my 10b post, I plan to create a Music or Science magazine article about my research topic "Psychology of Music". The tone of the article will either be casual and talk more about the emotional and memory state of the psychology of music if I choose to create a Music magazine piece or the tone will be more formal and include detailed information about studies and experiments to create a scientific magazine article. I am still unsure which article I am going to choose to work on but I think a magazine article would be the best way to explain my application project.
11a: Reporting on Your Progress
My rearch paper is almost fully completed. I have included all my visual aids, my bibliography page, and have almost 12 pages written. Some details I still need to work out before my paper is finished are proof reading through the entire paper to make sure it all sounds ok and that my punctuation/grammar is correct. I also need to add a few more references to my bibliography because I added a couple new paragraphs to my paper to make it longer so I need to cite my sources. I unfortunatly do not have 4,500 words yet, so I'll probably need to look into more studies and list more information to reach that goal. Other than those few items that I need to work on, my paper is almost complete.
10b: Brainstorming Ideas for the Application Project
For the application project I think I'm going to do a either a Magazine or Journal article. I'll make the article look like it belongs in a music magazine since my research topic is the "Psychology of Music". However, I could create the article as more of a scientific piece, since all my information includes data and charts. I think I'll just see how I feel about writing the application project when the time comes and if I feel like making it more casual, I'll create a Music magazine article and if I want to include more scientific details about the psychology of music, then I'll make it look like it belongs in a Science magazine.
10a: Reporting on Your Field Research
Field Research: Emailed Interviews
1st-Emailed interview questions to my Psych professor:
1) What is your psychological perspective of how music affects people’s emotions? Memories? Learning abilities?
I think that music is one of the most fundamental neurological phenomena of the human mind. To our knowledge, no other creature has anything akin to music (maybe whales?). It has been demonstrated by researchers that music involves nearly every neural structure and deeply affects all faculties of the brain.
2) How do you believe people are able to connect a particular song to a memory so that when that song is played, that memory is recalled?
This is a very deep question that is still being researched – I would direct you to “This Is Your Brain On Music” by Daniel Leviton for a more up to date and in depth discussion of this topic.
3) Do you believe music can increase learning ability in infants and children?
-What about adults?
While it probably cannot hurt, except as a distraction, there is little evidence that simply listening to music can enhance learning, however, there is strong evidence that formal music education can enhance learning strategies overall. Again, refer to Leviton or Oliver Sachs “Musicphilia.”
4) Why do you think emotions can be triggered through music?
-How do you think they are triggered?
Music strongly interacts with the limbic system, the emotional part of the brain, when being encoded into long term memory. Memory of actual percepts is a two-way street, with re-experience of either the actual percept triggering the emotions felt at the time of the original experience or, conversely, similar emotional experiences triggering the memory of the musical persept.
4) Do you believe the Mozart Theory is effective? Explain.
The research has shown there to be no Mozart effect.
6) Why do you think music is so powerful?
-Is it a form of hypnosis?
Music is so powerful (meaningful? moving?) precisely because it involves so many brain functions in such a pervasive way. I believe that the human response to music is inextricably related to the very neural structures that make us human, although research has yet to establish how all of this works.
No, as I don’t believe in hypnosis, I certainly do not believe that music is a form of hypnosis. Can music “transport” you or be “hypnotic,” in other words, foster a different state of consciousness? Well, yeah, but I wouldn’t call that hypnosis.
7) One research study found that older people who listened to music often were less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease because they were able to link memories to different songs. Do you agree with this study? Explain.
I really can’t explain, however, both Leviton and Sachs discuss several hypotheses to explain such phenomenon. It is my understanding, however, that Alzheimer’s is not stopped by musical memories, just that people with Alz. are often able to remember musical memories better for longer periods of time as opposed to other crystallized memories. This is probably due to the pervasive nature of musical memory, in other words, music’s tendency to involve so many brain areas in both perception, storage, and recall.
8) Can music, like television, trigger negative emotions that over time influence violent behavior? Or the opposite, does it relieve stress and negative emotions?
I would suppose that music is not exclusively positive. I’ve certainly witnessed plenty of antisocial behavior in response to musical input. I think, depending on the music, it can do both.
2nd-Emailed interview questions to my H.S Music teacher:
1) What is your psychological perspective of how music affects people's emotions? Memories? Learning Abilities?I think that music can serve as a shortcut to certain memories and emotional states. Somewhere in our brain, pathways are forged and a particular song or kind of song will trigger a past experience. I also think that culturally, we have been trained to associate certain sounds with certain emotions. In the Western music culture, we tend to associate music in minor with sadness or grief. Major music sounds "happier" to us. This association is not universal, because it does not hold true in other cultures. However, in our culture, this association has been cemented by centuries of common composition practices.2) How do you believe people are able to connect a song to a particular memory so when that song is played, that particular memory is recalled?I think our most vivid memories, and the ones we can recall the best, capture all of our senses. If we can remember what we smelled, tasted, felt and heard, in addition to what we saw, the memory will be much more potent. That's why certain songs can take you back to a specific moment. Also, because songs have certain emotions engrained in them, a song can take you back to a certain emotional state and a time period when you felt that way. Music from high school will always make me feel carefree and happy, because those are the feelings I associate with hs.3) Do you believe music can increase learning ability in infants and children? Why?-What about Adults?For both, I think there are researchers that are far better qualified to answer, but I certainly hope so. The research I have read, indicates that playing an instrument can help with brain development. In one particular study, brain scans for children who played instruments showed more activity than non-instrumentalists. Music playing can also help strenghten the connection between the left and right hemispheres of the brain.4) Why do you think emotions can be triggered through music? How do you think they are triggered?I really don't know for this one.5) Do you believe the Mozart Effect is in fact effective? Explain.I think that study is flawed, because they only used one specific passage of music with a very specific kind of logic exercise. I certainly think that there is the possibility that music makes you "smarter" but more research is needed. 6) Why do you think music is so powerful? -Is it a form of hypnosis?I'm not sure of the psychological reasons, but I believe that music and the arts in general are what give humans humanity. This is how we are different from animals. Humans have a need to express themselves through the creation of beauty. Music and the arts are not required for life, but they make life bearable and something worth living. Also, humans have a need to create something lasting. You can see it all around us in our monuments, buildings, literature, even our families. We all want to leave a legacy. The arts allow us to do this. There is a latin expression that says it best... Ars longa, vita brevis: art is long, life is short.7) One research study found that older people who listened to music were less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease because they were able to link memories to particular songs. Do you agree/disagree with this study? Explain.I agree, only because I had a professor who did music therapy with Alzheimer's patients. She told us many stories about patients who were not lucid at all, but she would play music from the 40s and for a brief time, they would be able to recall memories and seem more like themselves.Maybe our memories associated with music are stored somewhere else and remain intact longer?8) Can music, like TV, trigger negative emotions that over time influence violent behavior? OR does it do the opposite and act as a stress reliever?I think it depends entirely on the person and the music. Personal preference plays a huge part. That's the beauty of music... it's personal and it has a profound ability to affect each person differently.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
8a: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
In Rick Nauert's online article "Brain Center Links Music, Memory and Emotion," he summarizes a musical experiment performed by a college psychology professor named Petr Janata. Naurt explains in this following quote that after much observation and research, "Earlier work of Janata’s had documented that music serves as a potent trigger for retrieving memories. "(Naurt, psychcentral.com) Furthermore, Janata had even proved in his experiment that older people who listened to more music than others, were less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease because they were able to link memories to particular songs so that when a song were to be played, they were able to recall a memory.
Paraphrase:
In the article "Brain Center Links Music, Memory, and Emotion," author Rick Naurt describes an experiment involving music performed by psychology professor Petr Janata. After much research Naurt states about Petr's experiment that, "Earlier work of Janata’s had documented that music serves as a potent trigger for retrieving memories."(Naurt, psychcentral.com) Thus, at the end of Janata's experiment, he was able to prove that older people were less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease if they listened to more music because they were able to link particular memories to a song so when that song was played, they could recall that memory.
Summary:
An article written by Rick Naurt explained a musical experiment performed by Petr Janata, a psychology professor. This experiment involved linking songs to memories and in the end, proved that Alzheimer's disease was less likely to develop in older people who listened to more music than those who did not.
Paraphrase:
In the article "Brain Center Links Music, Memory, and Emotion," author Rick Naurt describes an experiment involving music performed by psychology professor Petr Janata. After much research Naurt states about Petr's experiment that, "Earlier work of Janata’s had documented that music serves as a potent trigger for retrieving memories."(Naurt, psychcentral.com) Thus, at the end of Janata's experiment, he was able to prove that older people were less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease if they listened to more music because they were able to link particular memories to a song so when that song was played, they could recall that memory.
Summary:
An article written by Rick Naurt explained a musical experiment performed by Petr Janata, a psychology professor. This experiment involved linking songs to memories and in the end, proved that Alzheimer's disease was less likely to develop in older people who listened to more music than those who did not.
Monday, March 16, 2009
7b: Evaluating Sources
Book Source: I've only started the book but so far it is discussing more of how composers become musicians rather then children and their musical abilities. I plan to go to the table of content, look up which chapter would best compare to my topic and read that chapter. If it's related I will use the information in my essay and if not, I'll return the book and find another that is related.
Shuter-Dyson, Rosamund, and Clive Gabriel. The Psychology of Musical Ability. New York: Methuen & Co, 1968.
Periodical Source: I found a brief summary of this article in the EBSCO database and decided to go to their website to get the full journal article. It is a great source because it scientifically discusses the locations of the brain, where memories are held, and how scientists believe that the part of the brain where the memories are stored are also close or connected to the same part of the brain that recognizes music and that is why we are able to comprehend our favorite songs and sometimes be able to bring back an old memory. It also has been said that older people with alzheimers have a better chance at remembering things when listening to music because the two locations in the brain are connected, rather then older people who do not listen to music.
Janata, Petr. "The Neural Architecture of Music-Evoked Autobiographical Memories." Oxford Journals-Cerebral Cortex (2009).
Website Source: Though this article was originally published in 1899, I found it to have good information about how music and memory collabrate together so we are able to hear, understand, and bookmark songs in our memories so that later on in life when we hear that older song, it brings back memories of that time period.
"Music Psychology-Memory." Old and Sold-Antiques Digest. 1899. 8 Mar. 2009
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles30/music-psychology-8.shtml.
Shuter-Dyson, Rosamund, and Clive Gabriel. The Psychology of Musical Ability. New York: Methuen & Co, 1968.
Periodical Source: I found a brief summary of this article in the EBSCO database and decided to go to their website to get the full journal article. It is a great source because it scientifically discusses the locations of the brain, where memories are held, and how scientists believe that the part of the brain where the memories are stored are also close or connected to the same part of the brain that recognizes music and that is why we are able to comprehend our favorite songs and sometimes be able to bring back an old memory. It also has been said that older people with alzheimers have a better chance at remembering things when listening to music because the two locations in the brain are connected, rather then older people who do not listen to music.
Janata, Petr. "The Neural Architecture of Music-Evoked Autobiographical Memories." Oxford Journals-Cerebral Cortex (2009).
Website Source: Though this article was originally published in 1899, I found it to have good information about how music and memory collabrate together so we are able to hear, understand, and bookmark songs in our memories so that later on in life when we hear that older song, it brings back memories of that time period.
"Music Psychology-Memory." Old and Sold-Antiques Digest. 1899. 8 Mar. 2009
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles30/music-psychology-8.shtml.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
7a: Conducting Internet Research
SEARCH ENGINE
Resource searched: Ask.com
Keywords used: Music psychology
Search strategies used: Clicked and read through anything that involved facts and information about Music psychology and weren't trying to sell or promote products and places.
Date of search: 3/15/09
Number of hits: 13,800,00
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 3.5
METACRAWLER
Resource searched: Kart00.com
Keywords used: music psychology
Search strategies used : Placed my mouse over each icon of a website i could be linked to and read the side section that told me what the internet site was about. If it were helpful I clicked on it and read the information given, if it wasn't, I skipped on to the next icon until I did found something intereseting.
Date of search : 03/15/09
Number of hits: 3,990,000
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) : 2
DIRECTORY
Resource searched: odyssearch.com
Keywords used: Psychology of music/ music psychology
Search strategies used: Like Ask.com, I typed in my keywords, then read through the links to see which sites were most like my topic of research, if they were I would click on the link and read the entire site, if not, I would ignore it and try and find one that was helpful.
Date of search: 03/15/09
Number of hits: 22
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) : 1 - Majority showed different music institutes or colleges that offered music or psychology classes.
**Couple other directories I tried were 10directory.com and searchmonster.org and both came up with little to no results taht were related to my topic of research.
Other Search Tools
I looked up different blog places such as xanga.com and icerocket.com and neither had blogs or videos posted remotely close to my topic of music psychology. They had blogs about different types of music or just psychology but I was unable to find them combined.
Overall, I found search engines and metacrawlers most helpful when researching information and facts like my topic unlike directories and blogs that are more broad and do not give specific information one might need for a paper.
Resource searched: Ask.com
Keywords used: Music psychology
Search strategies used: Clicked and read through anything that involved facts and information about Music psychology and weren't trying to sell or promote products and places.
Date of search: 3/15/09
Number of hits: 13,800,00
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 3.5
METACRAWLER
Resource searched: Kart00.com
Keywords used: music psychology
Search strategies used : Placed my mouse over each icon of a website i could be linked to and read the side section that told me what the internet site was about. If it were helpful I clicked on it and read the information given, if it wasn't, I skipped on to the next icon until I did found something intereseting.
Date of search : 03/15/09
Number of hits: 3,990,000
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) : 2
DIRECTORY
Resource searched: odyssearch.com
Keywords used: Psychology of music/ music psychology
Search strategies used: Like Ask.com, I typed in my keywords, then read through the links to see which sites were most like my topic of research, if they were I would click on the link and read the entire site, if not, I would ignore it and try and find one that was helpful.
Date of search: 03/15/09
Number of hits: 22
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) : 1 - Majority showed different music institutes or colleges that offered music or psychology classes.
**Couple other directories I tried were 10directory.com and searchmonster.org and both came up with little to no results taht were related to my topic of research.
Other Search Tools
I looked up different blog places such as xanga.com and icerocket.com and neither had blogs or videos posted remotely close to my topic of music psychology. They had blogs about different types of music or just psychology but I was unable to find them combined.
Overall, I found search engines and metacrawlers most helpful when researching information and facts like my topic unlike directories and blogs that are more broad and do not give specific information one might need for a paper.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
6c: Planning Field Research
After going through different types of field research class, I have come up with three types of field research for my topic, two interviews and a survey. This semester I'm taking Intro to Psychology and have been really interested in the subject, hence my topic being the Psychology of music. I plan to ask permission to conduct an interview with my psychology professor and ask him a few questions and his own opinions about music and its effects on people's minds, emotions, and learning abilites. My second interview will be with my high school choir teacher and I plan to repeat the same questions and ask for her own opinion as I will do for my psych professor, then compare and contrast each educator's view on music psychology. My third and final field research, a survey, will be given to my family and closest friends. On the survey I will have 10 questions that will ask them about their view on music and the mind and how they think music effects them on a daily basis.
I believe that before we begin our field research, we should go over on what questions we should create that will help us sound professional yet help us get the information we need for our research papers.
I believe that before we begin our field research, we should go over on what questions we should create that will help us sound professional yet help us get the information we need for our research papers.
6b: Testing Assigned Search Tool
Assigned Search Engine: Ask.com
Resource searched: My topic of Music Psychology
Keywords used: Music, Psychology, emotions,
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): Music +psychology +emotions
Date of search: March 8, 2009
Number of hits: 652,800 different hits, 10 on each page
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 2.5. Ask.com had some good information that i was able to tag and save as a bookmark on my delicious account but the rest of the hits were about psychology itself or information on music institutes and how to learn music. Also, how to buy books/movies about psychology or music on Amazon and other websites that werent helpful at all.
6a: Using Internet Search Tools
Some internet search tools I found helpful to research my topic included Google.com, Auraria's library website, Prospector.com, and dogpile.com. I found out by using Dogpile.com that it is very similar to Google. When I typed in my topic "Music psychology", both Google and Dogpile came up with results ranging from buying music psychology books on Amazon.com, to different articles, statistics, and information about music psychology. I was able to successfully find multiple websites through Google and Dogpile that gave me the information about my topic that I was specifically looking for such as the emotions and feelings of music and how the brain reacts when we humans hear music. Prospector and Auraria's Library website were helpful to me when locating music psychology books and articles. On Prospector, I was able to type in my topic and locate different libraries that would have a specific book that explained my topic. Also, if the book was checked out, I was able to place a HOLD on it so that when it was turned back in, I would be notified through email and able to check it out. Auraria's Library was able to help me locate books in their library that was exactly what I was looking for my research of music psychology.
Some sites that weren't informative or helpful for my topic included citizendium.com and aclin.org. Though I typed in several differnt types of Boolean and keywords, these two sites never came up with what I was looking for when it came to information or was very broad about the topic of music psychology and didn't go into much detail about the subject.
Some sites that weren't informative or helpful for my topic included citizendium.com and aclin.org. Though I typed in several differnt types of Boolean and keywords, these two sites never came up with what I was looking for when it came to information or was very broad about the topic of music psychology and didn't go into much detail about the subject.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
5c: Rewriting Search Strings
New Search strings:
Music +psychology
Music psychology +emotion
Music psychology AND child development AND learning abilities
Music psychology AND memory AND emotions
Music +psychology +memory -catalogues -blogs
Music +psychology
Music psychology +emotion
Music psychology AND child development AND learning abilities
Music psychology AND memory AND emotions
Music +psychology +memory -catalogues -blogs
5b: Finding More Reference Articles and Books
http://psychcentral.com/news/2009/02/24/brain-center-links-music-memory-and-emotion/4309.html
Author: Rick Nauert, Ph.D
Last updated: Feb 27, 2009
Published: Psych Central. 1992-2009
Researched on: 3/1/09
--This article is about how people are able to listen to a song and recall a memory just by listening. This site will help me greatly with researching how the brain recalls memory just by listening and why emotions are triggered when we hear that particular song.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2430709
Author: Susann Eschrich,1 Thomas F Münte,2 and Eckart O Altenmüller1
Last updated: Not given
Published: Online May 28, 2008
Researched on: 3/1/09
--This article is about the research of whether emotional music is more or less likely to recall past memories then less emotional music. It is a good study has good information for my topic.
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/02/24/study.finds.brain.hub.links.music.memory.and.emotion
Author:Petr Janata/UC Davis
Last updated: (recent publish)
Published: February 24, 2009
Researched on: 3/1/09
This website is the scientific view of the brain and how scientists believe that the part of the brain where it retrieves and saves memories links to a hub to the emotions and familiar music of the brain. Very interesting information that will help support my topic with the scientific facts.
**I found more websites and saved them to my delicious account. I found the three above really helpful and had lots of information for my topic**
Author: Rick Nauert, Ph.D
Last updated: Feb 27, 2009
Published: Psych Central. 1992-2009
Researched on: 3/1/09
--This article is about how people are able to listen to a song and recall a memory just by listening. This site will help me greatly with researching how the brain recalls memory just by listening and why emotions are triggered when we hear that particular song.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2430709
Author: Susann Eschrich,1 Thomas F Münte,2 and Eckart O Altenmüller1
Last updated: Not given
Published: Online May 28, 2008
Researched on: 3/1/09
--This article is about the research of whether emotional music is more or less likely to recall past memories then less emotional music. It is a good study has good information for my topic.
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/02/24/study.finds.brain.hub.links.music.memory.and.emotion
Author:Petr Janata/UC Davis
Last updated: (recent publish)
Published: February 24, 2009
Researched on: 3/1/09
This website is the scientific view of the brain and how scientists believe that the part of the brain where it retrieves and saves memories links to a hub to the emotions and familiar music of the brain. Very interesting information that will help support my topic with the scientific facts.
**I found more websites and saved them to my delicious account. I found the three above really helpful and had lots of information for my topic**
Sunday, February 22, 2009
4c:Checking Search Strings
I commented on Bernadette and Maggie's research journals.
All their keywords and Boolean looked great, I offered a couple suggestions but overall their 3b looked like they had enough to find all sorts of information on the web.
All their keywords and Boolean looked great, I offered a couple suggestions but overall their 3b looked like they had enough to find all sorts of information on the web.
4b: Finding Books
I listed the books I found along with the websites I found in the blog posted 4A. I will just re-state what I posted.
http://prospector.coalliance.org/search/?searchtype=X&searcharg=music+psychology&SORT=D&imageField.x=22&imageField.y=20-I found prospector to be very successful. I found multiple books that will help me explore my topic of music psychology. I actually searched and found the "Music Psychology" section of the Auraria library and have checked out two books related to my topic.
1) Title: "The Frontier Meaning: Three Informal Lectures on Music"/ Author: Charles Rosen/ Date Checked out: 2-19-09/ Date Published: 1994/ Publisher: HarperCollinsCanadaLtd & Hill and Wang /Page number: 1-135.
2) Title: "The Psychology of Musical Ability"/ Author: Rosamund Shuter-Dyson and Clive Gabriel/ Date checked out: 2-19-09/ Date Published: 1968/ Publisher: Metheun & CO. Ltd/ Page number: 1-269
I also found an E-Book on Google.com:
http://books.google.com/books?id=oKLOm_I3dcAC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=music+psychology&source=bl&ots=IQdpcrvTEc&sig=whOsIqPCGyrNIcxRsDgKq0dB8ew&hl=en&ei=GuahSfPWNIWc-Aago-W3Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPP1,M1
-I searched on Google.com for "Psychology of Music" and since I had browsed the first page before, I skipped on to the second page and began searching for more articles and information. When I came across the third page I found an E-Book that discussed the developmental of Music Psychology. It has many pages and highlighted points so I think it will be very useful in my research.
Title: "The Developmental of Music Psychology"/ Author: David J. Hargreaves/ Date searched: 2-22-09/ Date Published: since it is an E-book I dont think it has a published a date/publisher, i was unable to find one but perhaps I'm mistaken.
http://prospector.coalliance.org/search/?searchtype=X&searcharg=music+psychology&SORT=D&imageField.x=22&imageField.y=20-I found prospector to be very successful. I found multiple books that will help me explore my topic of music psychology. I actually searched and found the "Music Psychology" section of the Auraria library and have checked out two books related to my topic.
1) Title: "The Frontier Meaning: Three Informal Lectures on Music"/ Author: Charles Rosen/ Date Checked out: 2-19-09/ Date Published: 1994/ Publisher: HarperCollinsCanadaLtd & Hill and Wang /Page number: 1-135.
2) Title: "The Psychology of Musical Ability"/ Author: Rosamund Shuter-Dyson and Clive Gabriel/ Date checked out: 2-19-09/ Date Published: 1968/ Publisher: Metheun & CO. Ltd/ Page number: 1-269
I also found an E-Book on Google.com:
http://books.google.com/books?id=oKLOm_I3dcAC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=music+psychology&source=bl&ots=IQdpcrvTEc&sig=whOsIqPCGyrNIcxRsDgKq0dB8ew&hl=en&ei=GuahSfPWNIWc-Aago-W3Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPP1,M1
-I searched on Google.com for "Psychology of Music" and since I had browsed the first page before, I skipped on to the second page and began searching for more articles and information. When I came across the third page I found an E-Book that discussed the developmental of Music Psychology. It has many pages and highlighted points so I think it will be very useful in my research.
Title: "The Developmental of Music Psychology"/ Author: David J. Hargreaves/ Date searched: 2-22-09/ Date Published: since it is an E-book I dont think it has a published a date/publisher, i was unable to find one but perhaps I'm mistaken.
4a: Finding Reference Articles
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Music_psychology
-I used citizendium.org, and I tried to type in key words such as "*music*psychology" but recieved 0 results so i just typed in "music psychology" and came up with this site, that is still going under construction.
Title: Music Psychology/Last updated: 10-5-08/Date searched: 2-22-08/No Author
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/History_of_music_psychology
-I found related articles for "Psychology of Music" on of which was the History of music psychology.
Title: History of Music Psychology/ Author:Unknown/ Last updated: 2-13-09/ Date searched: 2-22-09
www.infoplease.com
-Proved to be unsuccessful. I typed in various keywords such as "+music+psychology", "music psychology", "psychology of music", "music psychology affect on learning abilites", and the website either gave me the definitons of music OR psychology. It also just defined my keywords rather then describe the psychological affect of music on adults and children.
www.scholarpedia.org
-Proved to be the same as infoplease.com, unsucessful. Once again, I typed in many different keywords, all coming up with "No Results" except for a link to Amazon.com where I could buy books related to music or psychology, but again no actual information about the topic.
http://prospector.coalliance.org/search/?searchtype=X&searcharg=music+psychology&SORT=D&imageField.x=22&imageField.y=20
-I found prospector to be very successful. I found multiple books that will help me explore my topic of music psychology. I actually searched and found the "Music Psychology" section of the Auraria library and have checked out two books related to my topic.
1) Title: "The Frontier Meaning: Three Informal Lectures on Music"/ Author: Charles Rosen/ Date Checked out: 2-19-09/ Date Published: 1994/ Publisher: HarperCollinsCanadaLtd & Hill and Wang /Page number: 1-135
2) Title: "The Psychology of Musical Ability"/ Author: Rosamund Shuter-Dyson and Clive Gabriel/ Date checked out: 2-19-09/ Date Published: 1968/ Publisher: Metheun & CO. Ltd/ Page number: 1-269
http://books.google.com/books?id=oKLOm_I3dcAC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=music+psychology&source=bl&ots=IQdpcrvTEc&sig=whOsIqPCGyrNIcxRsDgKq0dB8ew&hl=en&ei=GuahSfPWNIWc-Aago-W3Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPP1,M1
-I searched on Google.com for "Psychology of Music" and since I had browsed the first page before, I skipped to the second page and searched. When I came across the third page I found an E-Book that discussed the developmental of Music Psychology. It has many pages and highlighted places so I think it will be very useful in my research.
Title: "The Developmental of Music Psychology"/ Author: David J. Hargreaves/ Date searched: 2-22-09/ Date Published: since it is an E-book I dont think it has a published a date/publisher, i was unable to find one but perhaps I'm mistaken.
-I used citizendium.org, and I tried to type in key words such as "*music*psychology" but recieved 0 results so i just typed in "music psychology" and came up with this site, that is still going under construction.
Title: Music Psychology/Last updated: 10-5-08/Date searched: 2-22-08/No Author
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/History_of_music_psychology
-I found related articles for "Psychology of Music" on of which was the History of music psychology.
Title: History of Music Psychology/ Author:Unknown/ Last updated: 2-13-09/ Date searched: 2-22-09
www.infoplease.com
-Proved to be unsuccessful. I typed in various keywords such as "+music+psychology", "music psychology", "psychology of music", "music psychology affect on learning abilites", and the website either gave me the definitons of music OR psychology. It also just defined my keywords rather then describe the psychological affect of music on adults and children.
www.scholarpedia.org
-Proved to be the same as infoplease.com, unsucessful. Once again, I typed in many different keywords, all coming up with "No Results" except for a link to Amazon.com where I could buy books related to music or psychology, but again no actual information about the topic.
http://prospector.coalliance.org/search/?searchtype=X&searcharg=music+psychology&SORT=D&imageField.x=22&imageField.y=20
-I found prospector to be very successful. I found multiple books that will help me explore my topic of music psychology. I actually searched and found the "Music Psychology" section of the Auraria library and have checked out two books related to my topic.
1) Title: "The Frontier Meaning: Three Informal Lectures on Music"/ Author: Charles Rosen/ Date Checked out: 2-19-09/ Date Published: 1994/ Publisher: HarperCollinsCanadaLtd & Hill and Wang /Page number: 1-135
2) Title: "The Psychology of Musical Ability"/ Author: Rosamund Shuter-Dyson and Clive Gabriel/ Date checked out: 2-19-09/ Date Published: 1968/ Publisher: Metheun & CO. Ltd/ Page number: 1-269
http://books.google.com/books?id=oKLOm_I3dcAC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=music+psychology&source=bl&ots=IQdpcrvTEc&sig=whOsIqPCGyrNIcxRsDgKq0dB8ew&hl=en&ei=GuahSfPWNIWc-Aago-W3Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPP1,M1
-I searched on Google.com for "Psychology of Music" and since I had browsed the first page before, I skipped to the second page and searched. When I came across the third page I found an E-Book that discussed the developmental of Music Psychology. It has many pages and highlighted places so I think it will be very useful in my research.
Title: "The Developmental of Music Psychology"/ Author: David J. Hargreaves/ Date searched: 2-22-09/ Date Published: since it is an E-book I dont think it has a published a date/publisher, i was unable to find one but perhaps I'm mistaken.
Monday, February 16, 2009
3c: Brainstorming Field Research Options
5 Field Research Options:
1) Interview my Introduction to Psychology professor, professor Froyd, and get it his perspective of how the brain and mind works and why we enjoy the sound of music. Also, I will ask his opinion about the "Baby Mozart Theory" and whether children who listened to classical music as an infant are smarter than other children who did not.
2) Interview my High School choir teacher, Ms. Nguyen. I will ask her questions like why she decided to have music become her career and what music means to her.
3) Interview the lecturer during my applied assignment for psychology. Part of my grade in psychology is to attend lectures about psychology, so hopefully I might be able to schedule an interview with that spokesperson and ask him/her a few questions about music psychology.
4) Create a survey and ask to have my class mates or a variety of friends and family to listen to different kinds of music then circle what feelings they have toward that particular song/if it brings back any memories.
5) Create a short 5-10 multiple choice survey and go to a music store (FYI, Best Buy, etc) and ask people in the cd aisle, if they mind sparing a few minutes of their time to fill it out and get their view of music and how their mind reacts to music. I would have to make sure my questions are simple but also have enough information to help create a solid research paper.
1) Interview my Introduction to Psychology professor, professor Froyd, and get it his perspective of how the brain and mind works and why we enjoy the sound of music. Also, I will ask his opinion about the "Baby Mozart Theory" and whether children who listened to classical music as an infant are smarter than other children who did not.
2) Interview my High School choir teacher, Ms. Nguyen. I will ask her questions like why she decided to have music become her career and what music means to her.
3) Interview the lecturer during my applied assignment for psychology. Part of my grade in psychology is to attend lectures about psychology, so hopefully I might be able to schedule an interview with that spokesperson and ask him/her a few questions about music psychology.
4) Create a survey and ask to have my class mates or a variety of friends and family to listen to different kinds of music then circle what feelings they have toward that particular song/if it brings back any memories.
5) Create a short 5-10 multiple choice survey and go to a music store (FYI, Best Buy, etc) and ask people in the cd aisle, if they mind sparing a few minutes of their time to fill it out and get their view of music and how their mind reacts to music. I would have to make sure my questions are simple but also have enough information to help create a solid research paper.
3b: Writing Search Strings
Here are a few search strings or search engine "math equations" I was able to use and find some good websites for Music Psychology at Google.com.
+music+psychology
+music+psychology-songs-therapy
"music psychology"
+music+perspective+behavior
+music+categories+learning abilites-books-catalogs
"music human behavior"
+psychology+music+memories
+music+psychology
+music+psychology-songs-therapy
"music psychology"
+music+perspective+behavior
+music+categories+learning abilites-books-catalogs
"music human behavior"
+psychology+music+memories
3a: Generating Keywords
Research Question: What is the psychological perspective of how different categories of music affect humans learning abilities and emotional behaviors and why certain songs bring back particular memories of their past?
Related Keywords and ladders:
Perspective: Perspectives, Perspect
- Point of view
- standpoint
- angle
- Perception
Event occurs > witness event > view your own perspective of event
Categories: Category, Categorial, Categorize, Categorizing
- Group
- Kind
- Sort
- Type
Have a large group of objects > choose to separate objects > Organize and categorize the separated objects.
Ability: Abilities
- Skill
- Aptitude
- talent
Create or know an obstacle > Practice and learn obstacle > aquire an ability for that obstacle.
Behavior: Behaviors, Behavioral, Behave, Behaviour
- Actions
- Manner
- Performance
Science > species > Emotions and feelings > psychology > behaviors of species.
Music: Musical, Musician
- Melody
- Tune
- Composition
- Song
Science > sound > humans feel and create rythms > music
Memories: Memory, Memorize, Memo, Memorizing
- Recall
- reminiscence
- Remembrance
- Memoir
- Flash back
Science > species> psychology > special/meaningful event occurs > becomes a memory
Related Keywords and ladders:
Perspective: Perspectives, Perspect
- Point of view
- standpoint
- angle
- Perception
Event occurs > witness event > view your own perspective of event
Categories: Category, Categorial, Categorize, Categorizing
- Group
- Kind
- Sort
- Type
Have a large group of objects > choose to separate objects > Organize and categorize the separated objects.
Ability: Abilities
- Skill
- Aptitude
- talent
Create or know an obstacle > Practice and learn obstacle > aquire an ability for that obstacle.
Behavior: Behaviors, Behavioral, Behave, Behaviour
- Actions
- Manner
- Performance
Science > species > Emotions and feelings > psychology > behaviors of species.
Music: Musical, Musician
- Melody
- Tune
- Composition
- Song
Science > sound > humans feel and create rythms > music
Memories: Memory, Memorize, Memo, Memorizing
- Recall
- reminiscence
- Remembrance
- Memoir
- Flash back
Science > species> psychology > special/meaningful event occurs > becomes a memory
Monday, February 9, 2009
2c: Developing My Research Question
My refined and developed Research question:
Throughout the centuries, music has been created to support, individualize, inspire, and influence people's lives. But behind every played note of every written song, there is the psychological perspective of how different categories of music can affect the human's learning abilities and emotional behaviors and why only certain songs bring back particualr memories or feelings from their past.
Questions I came up with for my research paper:
WHAT...
-makes people enjoy different genres of music?
-gives us that feeling when we hear our favorite song?
-types of music affect people the most? (Triggering emotions, memories,etc)
-does the brain do to comprehend music?
-the process of the brain comprehending music?
WHY....
-do people react emotionally to a sad/happy song?
-do people enjoy music in general?
-do people like one type of music one day, and a completely different type the next?
-do people spend large amounts of money on music?
-do people pay money to see music be played live?
WHEN...
-is music the best time for people to be most receptive to music?
-is it better to play music to test the Mozart theory on babies? When they are sleeping or when they are awake?
WHERE...
-in the brain does music trigger our emotions and memories?
-does music come from?
WHO...
-is affected my music the most? Babies, children, teens, adults?
-who studies music psychology?
-who created the Mozart Theory?
HOW...
-are emotions, feelings, and memories created and remembered through music?
-do we know when music is triggering our brain/mind?
-does the Mozart Theory work exactly?
WOULD...
-people become interested in music pyschology if it were publicly discussed more often?
COULD...
-some people not be affected by music?
-people listen to only a bit of a song and know exactly what the song is or if it brings back memory or feeling?
SHOULD...
-music psychology be the only reasoning behind people's behavior? Such as road rage, depression, etc?
Throughout the centuries, music has been created to support, individualize, inspire, and influence people's lives. But behind every played note of every written song, there is the psychological perspective of how different categories of music can affect the human's learning abilities and emotional behaviors and why only certain songs bring back particualr memories or feelings from their past.
Questions I came up with for my research paper:
WHAT...
-makes people enjoy different genres of music?
-gives us that feeling when we hear our favorite song?
-types of music affect people the most? (Triggering emotions, memories,etc)
-does the brain do to comprehend music?
-the process of the brain comprehending music?
WHY....
-do people react emotionally to a sad/happy song?
-do people enjoy music in general?
-do people like one type of music one day, and a completely different type the next?
-do people spend large amounts of money on music?
-do people pay money to see music be played live?
WHEN...
-is music the best time for people to be most receptive to music?
-is it better to play music to test the Mozart theory on babies? When they are sleeping or when they are awake?
WHERE...
-in the brain does music trigger our emotions and memories?
-does music come from?
WHO...
-is affected my music the most? Babies, children, teens, adults?
-who studies music psychology?
-who created the Mozart Theory?
HOW...
-are emotions, feelings, and memories created and remembered through music?
-do we know when music is triggering our brain/mind?
-does the Mozart Theory work exactly?
WOULD...
-people become interested in music pyschology if it were publicly discussed more often?
COULD...
-some people not be affected by music?
-people listen to only a bit of a song and know exactly what the song is or if it brings back memory or feeling?
SHOULD...
-music psychology be the only reasoning behind people's behavior? Such as road rage, depression, etc?
Saturday, February 7, 2009
2b: Narrowing my Topic
I believe I will need to broaden my topic about Music Psychology. I had orginially planned on just discussing the brain functions of how music affects our emotions and why people react the way they do to different genres. I realized after the class worksheet that contained the "Who, What, Why.." questions that my topic was too narrow to create such an essay. However, after more research, I came up with other related topics, such as a child's ability to learn faster or slower depending on the type of music they listen to and whether if they are awake or asleep listening to the different genres, makes a difference. I also am interested in researching why certain songs bring back memories or feelings of the past, and why we remember them so clearly. I believe with all these different topics similar to the psychology of music, I'll be able to create a well written paper with much information.
2a-Exploring my topic
After our class discussion on the many possible search engines, I tried to take their advice and began my search on pioneer.com and the auraria library website. I tried to search thoroughly for my topic, Music psychology, but barely came up with anything strictly focused on my exact ideas for my paper. In the end, I went to Google.com and typed in "Psychology of Music". With success, it pulled up pages of informative websites focused on my topic, such as how music can affect peoples emotions and the different ways children learn from listening to different genres of music . While I have bookmarked some websites to my delicious account, I'm still searching for websites that contain information about why different types of music can bring back feelings and memories of the past, how and if music can comfort, persuade, and teach listeners through its lyrics, and the process of how the brain and sensory receptors recieve music and somehow trigger our emotions or feelings when listening to a particular song.
Monday, February 2, 2009
1b: My Topic
1) I chose my topic after one of my classmates discussed her possible idea of researching the pyschology of eating disorders. I orginally planned for my research paper to be about the history of music, ecspecially the history of Rock and Roll. I considered my classmates idea and the fact that I was taking Intro to Psychology and was really intrigued by the course, when I came up with my topic idea, the pyschology of music or musicology. I love all types of music and have always wondered why music moves us the way it does. How it can make you angry, happy, cry, or excited. Musicology will be a great topic to research with plenty of interesting information.
2) I just recently read a chapter in my Intro to Psychology book that explained what different parts of the brain make us feel or create emotions. This chapter helped explain a little more of HOW and WHY we feel the way we do to certain genres of music. However, I don't know the details of how every part of the brain and mind works to create the sensations and feelings we have toward music.
3) I believe the psychology of music will be a fascinating topic because there are all types of musicology that can be researched. I can include the phsyical steps our brain and body goes through in order to hear, comprehend, and enjoy music. I can learn about how our emotions and memories can be connected to music and why it makes us feel the way we do when our favorite or a memorable song comes on to the radio. I can research why certain people enjoy Rock music while others enjoy Classical and see if it's somehow related to that person's personality. There are many possiblities that I can research for my psychology of music topic and learn immensely from this semester.
2) I just recently read a chapter in my Intro to Psychology book that explained what different parts of the brain make us feel or create emotions. This chapter helped explain a little more of HOW and WHY we feel the way we do to certain genres of music. However, I don't know the details of how every part of the brain and mind works to create the sensations and feelings we have toward music.
3) I believe the psychology of music will be a fascinating topic because there are all types of musicology that can be researched. I can include the phsyical steps our brain and body goes through in order to hear, comprehend, and enjoy music. I can learn about how our emotions and memories can be connected to music and why it makes us feel the way we do when our favorite or a memorable song comes on to the radio. I can research why certain people enjoy Rock music while others enjoy Classical and see if it's somehow related to that person's personality. There are many possiblities that I can research for my psychology of music topic and learn immensely from this semester.
1a: Possible Topics
Here are a couple of possible research topics I came up with:
* History of Music (concentrated on Rock and Roll)
* Psychology of Music
* How to create a business and expand nation wide
* Affirmative Action in the workplace
* Psychology of Drug Addiction
-Janelle
* History of Music (concentrated on Rock and Roll)
* Psychology of Music
* How to create a business and expand nation wide
* Affirmative Action in the workplace
* Psychology of Drug Addiction
-Janelle
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