PSYC56H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gestalt Psychology, Erectile Dysfunction, General Idea
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Meyer talked about implicative patterns or patterns that would imply a continuation or generating expectancy based on gestalt notions. There is a structural leap; we expect that to be filled in, as a notion of closure or completion. There can also be a pattern increasing, we would expect a tone that would continue that pattern. According to meyer, on the basis of patterns, we could have expectations for the notes that are going to come next. Schmuckler was interested in what drives our expectations to occur at different times. He took eight measures of a complex musical passage. Looking over this passage, based on melodic features, was able to identify 10 different propositions. Listeners would hear the passage and said it would go one more note, and asked listeners to rate how that element fit in with expectations that were going to fit in at that point. In one they heard melody line, the harmonic accompaniment, or both.
