Mozart K 488 Influence

This study attempts to prove that certain music can be used to improve attention, elicit good mood, which will in turn enhance study environment.

Music has been a constant positive in my life. It has proven to help me develop the crucial skills I need to be able to succeed in life. Since kindergarten, I have achieved a high reading level, but struggled with my reading comprehension

Music can be beneficial to people through several ways, but music can also have positive effects on the mind. In the novel, The Mozart Effect for Children, by Don Campbell, music is discussed as being a voice in which someway every child, adult or human being can understand. Music allows people to sing along to the lyrics, move or dance to the beat, and match the melodies. The use of music can often be used to explore and discover the beauty in which music holds. The interaction of music with the mind can be shown through the use of vibrations, patterns, and rhythms (Campbell 8). This shows that music has a way to communicate with everybody and can make people included. Music has the effect of making everybody come together and act like

Studies show that music appears to support kids’ normal skills to interpret sounds and words. Learning to read and play music, appears to be related to an amount of assistance for kids, including improved processing of language and better reading skills. Music exercise in kids play develop key skills that will aid them in listening, attention, remembrance, and reading skills. Lisa Miller thinks,” in Europe was as crucial to becoming a cultivated person as knowing the works of Mozart or Rembrandt” ( ). Music is a foundation of human culture; it is a learning device, a way of communication, and, a way of

First, I will obtain (with getting permission) standardized test results from a middle school that I work for. The test results will not have names on them, but rather have numbers per student (i.e.-Subject one, subject two, etc.). The results will have an equal amount of music students and non-music students on campus. I will use this as a base study. Even if the test results do show that music students perform better than non-music students, it does not show suggestive evidence for my study. Perhaps other outside factors are contributing to the end result (i.e-home life, tutoring, parent wealth/education, etc.). Thus, I will need to expand my method. Second, I will conduct interviews with both parents and teachers. Each interview will be an in-depth (about an hour each) with each person. I plan on doing 7-10 interviews with parents, and then 7-10 interviews with teachers. In regards to the parents, I will get information about when their child started to learn music, what has changed since they have started to learn instrumental music, have study habits changed, and overall experiences with their child in regards to learning music. Keep in mind, that all questions will be focused on music in public schools. I do not see music outside of the classroom being part of the study. In terms of teachers, I will get information about their experiences with music to non-music students. These questions will be similar, however, it will focus on behavior in the classroom, test results, social ability to show the willingness of students to demonstrated their learning, and overall work ethic both at home and in the

The effects of Mozart on today’s society can be seen just about everywhere. In marketing, they play music to make the consumer want to buy their product. In restaurants, they play music to help the customer feel relaxed in their establishment. People listen to music while driving cars. It seems that music permeates almost every aspect of our everyday lives. When people think of the birth of modern music, they often think of classical music. And when people think of classical music, they think of Mozart. During the 18th century, the musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed a total number of six hundred and fifty works. When he was younger, he toured Europe with his father, Leopold, and his sister, Nannerl, playing for Europe’s elite of the time. He put forth some major musical contributions that shape modern music today (Fiero 324,326). Classical music is the great grandfather of all modern music. Some people enjoy

The study produced very high interrater reliability (92%) due to the clear and solid definition. However, one problem or limitation with the operational definitions was the lack of explanation between observing people individually or people in groups. Often time, females were observed in groups, but males were observed alone. Therefore, group work could be a confounding variable that skewed the data. Another strength is the internal validity of the study because of the detailed methods, and operational definitions. However, one limitation of this study is the lack of control. When observing, a participant, music was defined as, having had headphones in their ears. However, these people could have been listening to an educational video, or nothing at all. Therefore, the construct validity of this study is weak because listening to music may not have been observed. This study was conducted in a library of a private Midwestern, university, so the setting may have an impact on the results. First, at a private university, academics are held to a high standard, so students may be less distracted because they are determined and focused while completing schoolwork. Also, the observations occurred in a library, which is a quiet setting. Therefore, the lack of normal auditory distraction was not present, which could affect the people not listening to music to be less

The ‘Mozart Effect’ is an anomaly which suggests that Mozart’s music provides intellectual benefits to individuals under certain circumstances. It is a widely researched topic because of the many controversies. Scientists, psychologists and sociologists have examined the “effect” from multiple viewpoints to come to a concluding consensus. Based on the many scientific and psychological experiments and investigations, the Mozart Effect can be shown to be more of a sociological occurrence rather than a developmental benefit.

Although the original study found that listening to ten minutes of Mozart boosted spatial IQ by up to 9 points (in comparison to listening to silence or a relaxation tape), this study was conducted on college students, who are at a different developmental stage than infants (Rauscher et al. 1993). Therefore, the results of this study cannot be generalised to members of the population that are in a different age group. The apparent lack of testing the Mozart effect on babies indicates that perhaps there is no plausible way to test on such young children, as they are incapable of completing spatial reasoning tasks, such as cutting and folding paper. As there have been no studies that have tested on babies, results showing improved cognitive ability in babies after listening to Mozart simply do not exist, which is a major flaw of the research claim that ‘listening to Mozart makes babies smarter. The studies conducted since the original in 1993 have been indicative of some validity

An important topic in psychology for many decades now has been the influence of music on the cognitive processing of the brain. Cognitive processes include attention, memory, producing and understanding language, solving problems, and making decisions. Recent advances in technology have revealed that music has a heavy effect on the brain’s affective, cognitive, and motor components. Evidence has been found to support the idea that music can alter the topography of the brain which improves memory and strengthens the skill of understanding language. This fact is something many educators are beginning to take advantage of. Not only does music improve the aforementioned, it also allows for quick access and recovery of information

2. Classical music such as Mozart’s has been found to reduce tension and enhance specific varieties of intelligence which include verbal ability and spatial temporal reasoning. The main factors that are important in the Mozart’s Effect are the tempo, structure, melodic and harmonic consonance as it very soothing for the listener and it allows them to concentrate as it creates an environment conducive to learning. On top of this, adjusting the frequency over a period of time to listen to the same piece could potentially enhance the impact of Mozart’s Effect as it allows for the development of the brain. Mozart’s music allows a person to clear their mind while simultaneously focus on the work they are completing which in essence is key towards

Research and conducting experiments is the most effective way possible to gain an answer. The type of research is based on the situation, the hypothesis, and the resources the individual or group has on hand. The purpose of this research paper is to examine the Mozart Effect from two different journals and answer questions based on the research materials. The first article for examination is Music and spatial task performance.

The “Mozart effect” is a statement based on research studies claiming that listening to the

The human mind is constantly processing and picking up information. Music is an ordered and predictable sequence of sounds. When the brain hears music, it tries to decode it. In decoding those symbols and patterns, it sets up “neural highways, or synapses” , to receive and examine data. These pathways then can be used for remembering other symbol-oriented information, such as language and math. Like a muscle, the brain becomes stronger the more it is worked, and these workouts are achieved by listening to classical music. Mozart’s music is exceptionally difficult to decode, therefore the brain must work harder, thus making one smarter.

The mind is greatly impacted by music by showing healthful changes (www.bellaonline.com/articles/). Doctors now use music for their patients’ treatments in order to help them stay healthy (www.bellaonline.com/articles/). Heart patients acquired the same benefits from listening to classical music for thirty minutes as they did from anti-anxiety medication (www.bellaonline.com/articles/). Musical therapy has been used to help people with heart problems, which worked quite effectively. (www.bellaonline.com/articles/). People who have had migraines frequently, were trained to use music and relaxing procedures to reduce their headaches. Studies have also shown that music helps students with their intelligence levels (www.bellaonline.com/articles/). A majority of students had higher test scores than others because they listened to Mozart before their exam. People who listened to classical music for an hour and a half while revising manuscripts increased their accuracy by 21% (www.bellaonline.com/articles) (Mish 725.).