Music Psychology quiz

More questions about Music Psychology

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1. 1 Easy

   What is sound too low for humans to hear called?

   Answer: Infrasound

   Why: At two 2003 London concerts, 22% of listeners reported more unease or chills during pieces secretly laced with infrasound.

2. 2 Medium

   Who took part in the original 1993 Mozart effect study?

   Answer: College students

   Why: Rats came later: in 1998 Rauscher's team reported that rats raised on a Mozart sonata ran a maze faster, a claim later disputed.

3. 3 Hard

   Which marine mammal named Ronan learned to keep a musical beat?

   Answer: Sea lion

   Why: Sea lions are not known to mimic sounds, so Ronan undercut the theory that keeping a beat requires vocal mimicry.

4. 4 Easy

   What property of a sound wave mainly sets its pitch?

   Answer: Frequency

   Why: Loudness still nudges pitch a little: a louder low tone sounds slightly lower, and a louder high tone slightly higher.

5. 5 Medium

   Who did the 1993 study behind the '10,000-hour rule' examine?

   Answer: Violinists

   Why: The best violin students had averaged about 10,000 practice hours by age 20, the figure Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers made famous.

6. 6 Hard

   Why can tiny speakers seem to play deep bass notes?

   Answer: Missing fundamental

   Why: Classic phone lines carry sound from about 300 Hz up, yet a man's voice near 150 Hz keeps its pitch because the brain rebuilds it from overtones.