PSY387H5- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 81 pages long!)
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Things to consider: music varies across cultures, music varies over time within cultures, music is ambiguous, emotionally and otherwise, any sound can be treated musically. Declarative questions vs. statements- distinguished primarily by rising or falling intonation at the end: decoding these intonation patterns requires relative pitch. Yes or no: a method of measuring poor musical aptitude (tone deafness) focuses solely on the perception of relative pitch and scale structure (drayna et al. 2001: designed to measure genetic contribution to pitch perception in a twin study r(mz)= 0. 67 > r(dz)= 0. 44, evidence for a genetic contribution to pitch perception, not good for measuring normal range of music aptitude. Twin studies: 10,500 swedish twins; music practice is substantially heritable (40-70%), association between practice and ability is mainly genetic, and mz twins who differ in practice do not differ in ability (mosing et al. 2014a: us study (1700 twins): practice magnifies the genetic contribution to accomplishment- a.
