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Child Psychology – Fall 2023																																																																											Project 1: Design an Experiment																																																																																													DUE 9/26 at 5:59 PM.																																																					You  don't need to do any outside research to complete this project. You can  use your textbook and class notes and turn in a perfect project.																							Put your name on the cover page or you will lose points.																																																																																																												Parents  often claim that their babies prefer one type of music over another.  But, do infants really have the ability to make aesthetic judgments  about music? For this project, you willl design an experiment that  tests the perceptual abilities of infants.																																																																																													Give your essay an appropriate								title																(4 pts.).																																																																																																				Write an introductory paragraph that								summarizes research																on infants’ sensitivity to sounds and their preferences for one kind of  sound versus another. (20 pts.). Remember—all of this information is  in the textbook or class notes.																																																																																													In the main section of the essay,								design																an operant conditioning experiment to examine whether 4-month-olds  prefer one kind of music versus another. Be sure to include details  about your								methods																(16 pts.).																																																																																																				State								operational definitions																of the behaviors you will measure (8 pts.).																																																																																																				Name the independent and dependent								variables																(8 pts.).																																																																																																				What								factors																will you control and								how																(8 pts.)?																																																																																																				What								changes																would you have to see in the dependent variable(s) if babies do, in fact, prefer one kind of music over another (8 pts.)?																																																																																																																	Discuss potential								problems																and sources of								bias																(8 pts.).																																																																																																				Conclude with a								discussion																of the expected results and the								implications																for infants’ perceptual abilities if infants make aesthetic music judgments (20 pts.).

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Title: Child Psychology
Contents
Introduction	3
Methods	3
Operational Definitions	3
Controlled Factors	4
Expected Changes in Dependent Variables	4
Potential Problems and Bias	5
Discussion	5
Work Cited	6
Introduction
	Parents and experts alike have been interested in learning more about how sensitive to sound infants are, as well as if they may have preferences for particular genres of music. Infants are extraordinarily responsive to auditory cues from a young age, according to studies (Clemente & Ana). This enhanced hearing sensitivity is thought to be extremely important for their language development and general cognitive development. However, it is still a subject of curiosity and research as to whether young children have the capacity to form aesthetic judgements about music.
Methods
	We suggest an operant conditioning experiment to investigate whether 4-month-old newborns show preferences for one style of music over another. We will play rock and classical music for the newborns in this experiment. The genre of music (classical or rock) is the independent variable, and the babies' response, which will be assessed by their visual focus and facial expressions, is the dependent variable.
Operational Definitions
· Visual Attention: Using eye-tracking equipment, visual attention will be assessed. We'll keep track of how much time newborns spend gazing at a musically accompanied visual stimulus.

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