The Affects of Background Music on Word Recall
Location
CSU
Student's Major
Psychology
Student's College
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Mentor's Name
Barry Ries
Mentor's Department
Psychology
Mentor's College
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Description
umerous researchers have studied how much the environment affects performance. Hiis study is designed to test how background music affects performance on a word recall test. Undergraduate psychology students will be required to study and then take a word recall test. Participants will be randomly assigned to either a no-music group, a group in which they will listen to music that they rate as pleasant, or another group that will listen to music they rate as unpleasant. Participants in the latter two conditions will be invited back for a second session to be tested on a delayed word recall test. At that time, they will either listen to music they heard during the previous session, or they will not listen to music while taking the second test. It is anticipated that participants in the no-music condition will do better on the word recall test than the music conditions. Furthermore, it is anticipated that participants in the group that listens to pleasant music during the second trial will do better than participants who do not have background music.
The Affects of Background Music on Word Recall
CSU
umerous researchers have studied how much the environment affects performance. Hiis study is designed to test how background music affects performance on a word recall test. Undergraduate psychology students will be required to study and then take a word recall test. Participants will be randomly assigned to either a no-music group, a group in which they will listen to music that they rate as pleasant, or another group that will listen to music they rate as unpleasant. Participants in the latter two conditions will be invited back for a second session to be tested on a delayed word recall test. At that time, they will either listen to music they heard during the previous session, or they will not listen to music while taking the second test. It is anticipated that participants in the no-music condition will do better on the word recall test than the music conditions. Furthermore, it is anticipated that participants in the group that listens to pleasant music during the second trial will do better than participants who do not have background music.
