Motivation to study music

Question 1

Seashore Test of Musical Abilities (1919)

Answer 1

Tests people’s abilities to make decisions and distinctions based on pitch, harmony, and rhythm

Question 2

What is the ecological systems theory?

Answer 2

You are your own person with your own genetics but you are being impacted/influenced by a variety of different systems

Question 3

Were the Seashore Tests actually predictable of musical ability

Answer 3

No, the skills of hearing differences between harmonies, pitch, and rhythm are thought to be heritable

Question 4

Currently, what is said about the motivation to study music and inherit ability?

Answer 4

Certain individuals can have “gifts”, and they can be more developed through training

Question 5

How many different systems are included in the ecological systems theory?

Answer 5

5

Question 6

What is the microsystem?

Answer 6

Activities and relationships in which the child directly participates (family, school), and becomes more complex as the child gets older

Question 7

What is a mesosystem?

Answer 7

Interconnections between Microsystems, such as family, peers and schools

Question 8

What is an exosystem?

Answer 8

Aspects of the environment that the child does not directly interact with, but still has influence on their development such as parent job flexibility

Question 9

What is a macrosystem?

Answer 9

Beliefs, values, customs, and laws of society that are predetermined

Question 10

What is a chronosystem?

Answer 10

Change over time in all of the systems due to timing of events impacting the child (such as covid)

Question 11

How can the authoritarian viewpoint of parenting be applied to music teaching?

Answer 11

Parents need to have the same common and reasonable goals or challenges for their child while also nurturing support

Question 12

What was the research question from Kinney (2010)

Answer 12

What predicts the likelihood of children continuing in a band program between 6th and 8th grade?

Question 13

Kinney (2010) methods

Answer 13

Ask school district children (coming from predominantly low SES households) whether a number of factors predicted staying in band between those times (such as family structure, scores on exams, mobility, sex, etc)

Question 14

Kinney (2010) results

Answer 14

SES predictive in 8th grade but not 6th, academic achievement predicted enrollment, and sex was predictive (girls drop out 2 times more likely)

Question 15

What is occurring in the school years during a child’s motivation to study music?

Answer 15

Teachers begin to gain influence on child’s life, while still having the same common goal as caretakers or parents

Question 16

What is said about teachers that are extroverted?

Answer 16

They tend to be better in terms of training students

Question 17

What is occurring in adulthood with musical influence?

Answer 17

There is a strong musical identity influence if someone has been trained for years. There is also a gained comparison to peers