PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC

The exam can be taken in two alternative ways. The student can decide to take the exam in one (or the other) way at any time.

Option 1. In Option 1 the exam is a questionnaire including 56 questions (multiple choice or true or false). The time to complete the questionnaire is 50 minutes. If the course is hosting a visiting professor, the materials presented by the visiting professor are not included in the questions of the exam. The student can ask for an additional oral exam to top-up the mark (or the number of credits in the case of Erasmus).

Option 2. The students are asked to perform the direct replication of one literature experiment. The direct replication can be performed individually or in groups (I recommend no more than five students per group). Students need to contact the teacher to select the study and to set how the replication has to be performed. After the experiment has been selected and carried out, the student(s) needs to write a short report (max 7/8 pages including figures) that includes:
[1] the question that the experiment is addressing and what topics and concepts of the course it is addressing;
[2] the experimental method;
[3] the results. Results have to be presented via graphs and descriptive statistics (compulsory) but the student(s) can also add inferential statistics or more complex statistical analysis;
[4] a discussion that compares the results with the question and the results of the replication with the results of the original experiment. Plus, the student(s) needs to highlight the limits of the experiment (original and replication).
In the moodle page of the course students can find a template that can be used to write the short report.