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What is the impact that music has on our emotions? - Coggle Diagram
What is the
impact
that
music
has on our
emotions
?
Factors Impacting
Type of Music
The type of music individuals listen to can impact our emotions in several ways. Upbeat, happy music causes our brains to create chemicals such as serotonin and dopamine. This brings out feelings of joy and happiness whereas calm music can bring peacefulness and relax our body and mind. The type of music can also impact pulse rate, blood pressure along with breathing rate as it can activate the release of endorphins.
Environment
The type of environment in which you listen to music can have a significant impact on your emotions. Contrasting environments such as quiet and energetic environments affect your mood while listening to music. Quiet environments can increase the relaxing effects on music whereas an energetic environment can increase feelings of excitement. Listening to music in a comfortable environment where you feel privacy can help you connect with the emotions of the music instead of burying and hiding it.
Prior Mood
Prior mood can make you choose music that matches your prior emotions as a way to enhance your mood.
Volume of Music
Loud music enhances emotions and intensity while increasing heart rate and adrenaline levels. In contrast, quiet music beings calmness, creating a deeper emotional connection through harmony.
Experimental Method
Advantages
Cause-and-effect: This design manipulating variables can help researchers determine whether changes in the independent variable lead to changes in the dependent variable.
High Precision: Uses standardized and precise measurement techniques, allowing for accurate and objective data collection. This increases the confidence and reliability of the measurements and the gathered data.
Experiment can easily be replicated
The experimental method has no bias
Disadvantages
It’s subject to random errors as several trials were not run. It might not be accurate as the experiment is a self-report by the participant
The experiments undertaken are usually conducted in controlled environments which may not represent a real-life situation accurately.
Observational Method
Advantages
Observational research can be a more cost-effective option because It often requires fewer resources and equipment, therefore making it viable for researchers with limited budgets.
It is a better ethical option because it observes behaviour and doesn’t influence or alter it.
Disadvantages
There’s observer bias as the researcher’s interpretations may influence the gathered data.
Researchers have limited control over the variables being investigated which limits their ability to establish a cause-and-effect connection.
Qualitative Method
Advantages
Enables the researcher to go deep into the thoughts of the participants providing a rich insight.
Enables flexibility in the ways data can be collected. This can be through open-ended questions and behaviours. Allows the researcher to capture the complexity of human experiences.
Disadvantages
Due to the data being descriptive, qualitative research involves a small sample size. The in-depth exploration of a few cases may not accurately represent the broader population, making it challenging to apply the findings to a larger context.
The research process, including data collection, analysis, and interpretation, can be impacted by the researcher's preconceived conceptions, views, or personal biases.
Variables
Independent Variable
Music-Listening to music plays an important role in arousal and mood. Using two different genres of music with different tempos is done to identify if music has an impact on our mood.
Dependent Variable
Emotion-If an individual were to be calmer or more energised after listening to the music this would be measured by monitoring heart rate through a smartwatch.
Extraneous Variables
Background noise
:The performance of the participants can be impacted by this factor, potentially affecting the accuracy of the data in relation to the independent variable.
Participant Prior Mood
: The emotional state of the participants prior to the experiment could alter their true emotional response to the music.
Placebo Effect
: The participants have prior knowledge, therefore had expectations of what was to occur which could impact the experiment to a certain extent. Participants were aware of the conditions that were possible as they had been exposed to all the conditions
Ccntrolled Variable
All participants listened to the same music track
This ensures that every participant had the same experiment
Ethics
Informed Consent
: Informed Consent forms were attached as participants who were younger than 16 years were required to have parent consent whereas students above 16 years had the ability to consent on their own behalf.
Voluntary Particpation
: Voluntary participation was emphasized, ensuring that students understood their choice to participate or not, even if they had provided consent.
Right Withdraw
: The right to withdraw was respected, as students were reminded before the experiment began that they had the option to leave if they felt uncomfortable or no longer wanted to participate.
Confidentiality
:Anonymity was ensured through the use of ID numbers.
Debriefing
:After the research, participants were debriefed and given an explanation of the purpose of the research, the methods used, aswell as the findings.
Deception
:Researchers did not deceive
participants about the nature of the research unless absolutely necessary and justified.
Sample Size: All students undertaking Stage 1 psychology in a high school.
Potential Problem:With a bigger sample size it is harder to find a connection in the results as there would be different ages of people coming from different backgrounds
Potential Problems:
With a small sample size of one year level in a school, it is harder to generalize the results to the whole population.
Advantages
The results can be applied to all high school students across Adelaide if needed
Participants might have some differences in prior knowledge as it is done in multiple psychology classes. This would lead to diverse data results
Emotion
Intense emotions such as fear or excitement can trigger a flight or fight response, releasing adrenaline and increasing heart rate. An increased heart rate enables more blood to flow to muscles, providing the oxygen needed for physical exertion.