On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Greetings Tipsters,
>
> We are four undergraduate students who are conducting a research experiment
> on free word recall with different types of music. Can any of you help us
> with the following topics:
>
> 1. Operational definition of positive and negative words.
Unless I am missing something here about something i have never
heard about this is an oddly phrased question.
It seems to me that this is a good lesson about operational definitions
because I can come up with several operational definitions, but I am
not sure what you want to study!!!!!
For example, the positive words could be words that have a pleasant
sound, lots of sibilants (s's and c's); and the negative words could be
words that have an unpleasant sound, lots of guturalslike hard g's and
k's.
Or maybe we want them to be rated on a semantic differential scale
by an independent panel of judges.
>
> 2. Examples of positive and negative word lists.
So the examples would be tied to the specific operational defintions you
select! and to the ways in the which the words are assessed.
>
> 3. Are there any past studies regarding the relationship between free
> recall of positive and negative words in correlation with different types
> of music?
Do a psychinfo search to answer this question--I'd try word types and
music as keywords as a point of departure.
>
> We would really appreciate any insight that you can provide for us.
>
> Thank you,
You're welcome, although I had not much help here.
annette taylor
>
> Nick Mavetz, Mary Short, Amy Ward, and Matt Wheeler
>
> <snip>
>
Annette Taylor, Ph. D.
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