Quiz Ch. 1-4

Question 1

What is music psychology?

Answer 1

A multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary study of music in the human experience.

Question 2

T or F: All vibrations are perceived by humans as sound.

Answer 2

False, only some vibrations are perceived by humans as sound.

Question 3

Which of the following disciplines makes the least significant contribution to music psychology:

Physics, Sociology, Biology, Chemistry

Answer 3

Chemistry

Question 4

In the 19th Century, early work in music psychology was done in what two countries?

Answer 4

England and Germany

Question 5

What person is considered to be the father of modern music psychology?

Answer 5

Carl Seashore

Question 6

The literature in music psychology has:

Answer 6

increased steadily with each passing decade.

Question 7

T or F: Using modern search engines, it is difficult to find pertinent information.

Answer 7

False, It is possible to download full-text versions of many research articles.

Question 8

Which of the following journals is not a major contributor to the literature in music psychology?

Studies in Music Psychology, Musicae Scientae, Music Perception, Music Psychology

Answer 8

Studies in Music Psychology

Question 9

The International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition is:

Answer 9

held every other year in various cities around the world.

Question 10

One goal of music psychology:

Answer 10

is to understand the human experience more fully.

Question 11

Human beings and higher primates share what percentages of their DNA?

Answer 11

98%

Question 12

Complex human behaviors are:

Answer 12

Not instinctive.

Question 13

Neanderthals practiced burial rituals as long as:

Answer 13

60,000 years ago

Question 14

According to some thinking, cultural evolution may have taken over biological evolution around:

Answer 14

35,000 years ago

Question 15

What philosophical position finds musical meaning is primarily intellectual?

Answer 15

Formalism

Question 16

An Absolute Expressionist is one who finds the value of music in:

Answer 16

Expressiveness derived from internal musical processes.

Question 17

Music the incorporates the Golden Mean:

Answer 17

Contains important moments roughly two-thirds through a section or a movement.

Question 18

In Music Psychology, experiments conducted from a Humean Perspective:

Answer 18

Have has many right answers as their are participants.

Question 19

A knowledge system is:

Answer 19

A mode of sharing, expressing, understanding and knowing information about our inner and outer worlds and for understanding relationships within and between the two.

Question 20

What was Carl Seashore’s connection to astronomy?

Answer 20

He used astronomy as an analogy to make the point that scientific study need not detract from our experiences of beauty.

Question 21

T or F: Scholars have reached a consensus that music provided survival benefits and thus played an important role in our evolutionary development as a species.

Answer 21

False, only some scholars theorize that music provided survival benefits. Others do not.

Question 22

Chronobiologists study:

Answer 22

The biology of time.

Question 23

Entrainment means:

Answer 23

Two or more persons are attuned to the same rhythm.

Question 24

Compared to other animals, humans are more time _______.

Answer 24

Independent.

Question 25

Krause called humanly created sounds:

Answer 25

Anthrophony

Question 26

The niche hypothesis states:

Answer 26

That each species creates sounds that occupy a particular frequency and temporal niche.

Question 27

Compared to other animals, humans have a _____________ period of infant dependency.

Answer 27

Longer

Question 28

Infant directed speech:

Answer 28

Contains exaggerated prosodic elements, such as voice inflection.

Question 29

Prosody refers to:

Answer 29

Nonverbal aspects of speech, such as timbre, dynamic inflection, rhythmicity.

Question 30

To say that music is a mnemonic device means:

Answer 30

Music is used as a memory aid.

Question 31

T or F: The number of ancient musical artifacts found likely represents only a fraction of those instruments that are now lost because many were biodegradable.

Answer 31

True

Question 32

The earliest discovered bone flutes are dated as:

Answer 32

35-50,000 years old.

Question 33

Prehistoric cave and rock art provides:

Answer 33

Circumstantial evidence of musical behaviors.

Question 34

People used kilns for:

Answer 34

Artistic purposes long before they were used for functional purposes.

Question 35

The term invariants describes:

Answer 35

Aspects of human behavior that are common in general, but who's specifics change with culture.

Question 36

Music is a human _________.

Answer 36

Invariant.

Question 37

Idiophones are:

Answer 37

Struck or shaken instruments.

Question 38

Contemporary Ethnomusicologists believe that:

Answer 38

Music is a powerful way of expressing culture.

Question 39

Aesthetic enjoyment through music:

Answer 39

Is difficult to determine for different cultures because of the differing definitions of 'aesthetic enjoyment'

Question 40

In what century did the study of modern music psychology begin?

Answer 40

19th

Question 41

Roles of a Music Psychologist

Answer 41

Conduct research, Place results into a broader context, Weave together viewpoints to become a coherent view of the human experience.

Question 42

10 Ways Humans are Unique

Answer 42

Biological, Adaptability, Cultural Development, Symbolic Behaviors, Love, Play, Religion, Technology, Aesthetic Sensitivity, Knowledge

Question 43

Absolutism

Answer 43

Meaning of music resides within the music itself.

Question 44

Referentialism

Answer 44

Meaning resides in external referents of the music

Question 45

Formalism

Answer 45

Meaning is derived from the creative musical processes within the music, mainly intellectual.

Question 46

Expressionism

Answer 46

Value comes from the expression of human emotions.

Question 47

Absolute Formalist

Answer 47

Meaning is found intellectually within the music.

Question 48

Absolute Expressionist

Answer 48

Meaning is found emotionally within the music.

Question 49

Three Philosophical Positions on the Meaning of Music

Answer 49

Absolute Formalist, Absolute Expressionist, Referentialist

Question 50

Philosophy of Decartes

Answer 50

Only one truth, based on observation and experimentation, divide between mind and matter.

Question 51

Philosophy of Hume

Answer 51

Individualized truth, Truth based on observation and experience, each person construct their own truth and reality.

Question 52

Dysrhythmia can indicate:

Answer 52

Illness

Question 53

Ultradian Patterns

Answer 53

Less than 24 hours.

Question 54

Circadian Patterns

Answer 54

24 hours

Question 55

Infradian Patterns

Answer 55

Longer than 24 hours.

Question 56

T or F: We are born with a fully developed brain.

Answer 56

False: We are born with an undeveloped brain.

Question 57

Music's Survival Benefits:

Answer 57

Parent-Infant Bonding, Acquisition of Language, Unique Mode of Knowing, Social Organization

Question 58

Idiophones

Answer 58

Instruments that are struck.

Question 59

Membranophones

Answer 59

Drums

Question 60

Aerophones

Answer 60

Wind instruments

Question 61

Chordophones

Answer 61

Pianos, String Instruments

Question 62

Electrophones

Answer 62

Electric Instruments

Question 63

Corpophones

Answer 63

Body Instruments