Volume : VII, Issue : XI, November - 2018

EFFECT OF MUSIC ON THE MEMORY OF WORDS

Krystal, Sanjay Kumar

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Several types of research in the field of music have shown a mixed result on performance and memory aspect of an individual. The present study is designed to check the impact of music on short–term memory. The study was conducted in two phases with two groups of 30 participants each. Music selected for the study was Mozart‘s Sonata k.448, and the time given for studying the words was 250 seconds and were asked to recall after a gap of 20 seconds. Moreover, write the words in a sheet of paper individually. In the first phase both the group were given a different set of words to study and were asked to recall and write. The second phase group “A” participants were given another set of words to study with the headphone for listening to music and asked to recall it without the music in headphone while group “B” participants were asked to study the words without headphone and recall the words while listening to music in the headphone. Data were analyzed using the paired t–test, and significant differences were measured with a maximum score of 20. The result showed that better result was observed in 1st phase that is when assessed without any music, slight decrease in mean score was observed in the 2nd phase of group B was slightly better than group A.Thus it can be concluded that music can impact the short–term memory by disturbing the data encoding process if used during studying.

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EFFECT OF MUSIC ON THE MEMORY OF WORDS , KRYSTAL, Sanjay Kumar , INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7|Issue-11| November-2018

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