The Effect Of Music On The Performance Of A Task.

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The Effect Of Music On The

Performance Of A Task

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A b s t r a c t

The aim of this investigation is to investigate the effect of music upon the performance of a task.

30 participants completed different anagrams under each of the 3 conditions: fast, slow and no music.

A two-tailed Wilcoxon test was used, as a significance level of p=0.05. This revealed that the slow music & no music; and the fast music & slow music had significant results between them. However, between the fast music & no music conditions, there was no significance.

The data collected shows that slower music provides the highest level of performance, with the average score being 8.1 out of 15. Faster music gives an average performance, with no music providing the lowest level of performance. Individual differences and extraneous variables need to be accounted for, however, before firm conclusions can be drawn.

B a c k g r o u n d

Many studies have taken place with an aim to find out more about how music affects humans.

Turner et al (1997) concluded that