ANT 3541 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Prefrontal Cortex, Environmental Psychology, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
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Intelligence, music preferences, and uses of music - breaking down the study. They studied 480 croatian high school students between 16-19. They used music preference test and iq test for the study. Evolutionary familier - mate selection and food acquisition. Darwin has a theory that musi-language is how we understand music. Vocal music is evolutionarily familiar - we are familiar with language and words. The researchers did find a correlation between intelligence and music. They found positive correlation between intelligence and instrumental music. Cognitive use of music was positively correlated with sophisticated music and negatively correlated with contemporary music. Woman had a preference between vocal instrumental music. Music may just be an aspect of intelligence or a subtype of intelligence. Howard gardner - expressed the idea of multiple intelligences theory . This was a divergence from general iq testing. Intelligence should be pluralized, each of us has several difference intelligences.
