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1
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What is music psychology?

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

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2
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T or F: All vibrations are perceived by humans as sound.

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

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

Physics, Sociology, Biology, Chemistry

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Chemistry

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

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England and Germany

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

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Carl Seashore

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6
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The literature in music psychology has:

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increased steadily with each passing decade.

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

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

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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

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Studies in Music Psychology

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The International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition is:

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held every other year in various cities around the world.

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One goal of music psychology:

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is to understand the human experience more fully.

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11
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Human beings and higher primates share what percentages of their DNA?

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98%

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12
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Complex human behaviors are:

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Not instinctive.

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13
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Neanderthals practiced burial rituals as long as:

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60,000 years ago

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14
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According to some thinking, cultural evolution may have taken over biological evolution around:

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35,000 years ago

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What philosophical position finds musical meaning is primarily intellectual?

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Formalism

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

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Expressiveness derived from internal musical processes.

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17
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Music the incorporates the Golden Mean:

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

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18
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In Music Psychology, experiments conducted from a Humean Perspective:

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Have has many right answers as their are participants.

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A knowledge system is:

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

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20
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What was Carl Seashore’s connection to astronomy?

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

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21
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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.

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

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22
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Chronobiologists study:

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The biology of time.

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23
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Entrainment means:

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Two or more persons are attuned to the same rhythm.

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24
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Compared to other animals, humans are more time _______.

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Independent.

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25
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Krause called humanly created sounds:

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Anthrophony

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26
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The niche hypothesis states:

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

27
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Compared to other animals, humans have a _____________ period of infant dependency.

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Longer

28
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Infant directed speech:

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Contains exaggerated prosodic elements, such as voice inflection.

29
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Prosody refers to:

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

30
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To say that music is a mnemonic device means:

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Music is used as a memory aid.

31
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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.

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True

32
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The earliest discovered bone flutes are dated as:

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35-50,000 years old.

33
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Prehistoric cave and rock art provides:

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Circumstantial evidence of musical behaviors.

34
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People used kilns for:

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Artistic purposes long before they were used for functional purposes.

35
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The term invariants describes:

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

36
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Music is a human _________.

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Invariant.

37
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Idiophones are:

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Struck or shaken instruments.

38
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Contemporary Ethnomusicologists believe that:

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Music is a powerful way of expressing culture.

39
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Aesthetic enjoyment through music:

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

40
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In what century did the study of modern music psychology begin?

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19th

41
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Roles of a Music Psychologist

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

42
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10 Ways Humans are Unique

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

43
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Absolutism

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Meaning of music resides within the music itself.

44
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Referentialism

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Meaning resides in external referents of the music

45
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Formalism

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

46
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Expressionism

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Value comes from the expression of human emotions.

47
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Absolute Formalist

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Meaning is found intellectually within the music.

48
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Absolute Expressionist

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Meaning is found emotionally within the music.

49
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Three Philosophical Positions on the Meaning of Music

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Absolute Formalist, Absolute Expressionist, Referentialist

50
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Philosophy of Decartes

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

51
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Philosophy of Hume

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

52
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Dysrhythmia can indicate:

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Illness

53
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Ultradian Patterns

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Less than 24 hours.

54
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Circadian Patterns

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24 hours

55
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Infradian Patterns

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Longer than 24 hours.

56
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T or F: We are born with a fully developed brain.

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False: We are born with an undeveloped brain.

57
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Music’s Survival Benefits:

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

58
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Idiophones

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Instruments that are struck.

59
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Membranophones

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Drums

60
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Aerophones

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Wind instruments

61
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Chordophones

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Pianos, String Instruments

62
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Electrophones

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Electric Instruments

63
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Corpophones

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Body Instruments

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