Psychological Approaches to Music
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- Created on: 07-05-17 16:59
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Psychology of music examines
- individual differences
- nature vs nurture question
- cross-cultural comparisons
- cross-species comparisons
- evolutionary questions
- brain specialisations
Applications of music psychology
- education
- psychological/theraputic applications
- medicine
- social
Laboratory experiments
- must be specific and controlled
- can be unrealistic (ecological validity problem)
- removes the effect of nuisance variables
- hypothesis-driven
Cross-sectional studies
- groups of individuals of different ages/genders/etc tested at once
- provides normative data
- obtaining…
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