EFFECT OF MUSIC ON MEMORY RETRIEVAL
THESIS STATEMENT:
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER
I. DEFINITION OF TERMS A. DICTIONARY DEFINITION B. OPERATIONAL DEFINITON
II. WHAT IS MUSIC ON MEMORY RETRIEVAL.
III. HOW CAN MUSIC AFFECT YOUR LIFE A. THEORIES OF FORGETTING B. MEMORY AND RELATED FINDINGS C. MUSIC AND RELATED STUDIES
IV. HISTORY OF MUSIC
V .ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGE
VI. EFFECT OF MUSIC ON MEMORY RETRIEVAL IN YOUR LIFE CONCLUSIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY

ALIBASHER ABUBACAR
IV-C
MSU-ILS
JANUARY 3, 2011

EFFECT OF MUSIC ON MEMORY RETRIEVAL
Culture, past and present, varying wildly between times and places

ENGLISH IV
MS. SALMA M. MACARAMBON
Dedication
To Her who is able to keep me from falling and to present me
Carruth (1997) conducted an experiment to find out if music would improve the face-name recognition of nursing home residents with Alzheimer`s. There was a music condition and a no music condition. During the music condition, a therapist sang and played a guitar to a familiar song. The subjects were allowed to join the therapist in singing. Afterwards, the subjects were given a face-name recognition test. The no music condition received the test in the same manner, except for the singing. Four of the seven participants had a higher mean percent of correct responses during the music condition that during the no music condition.
A study conducted at the University of California, Irvine, showed that scores on memory tests of people with Alzheimer`s greatly improved when they listened to Mozart. They recalled shapes and patterns better, for example, than when they were not listening to Mozart (Music Therapy, 2001). At a British Psychological Society Conference in December of 2000, Elizabeth Valentine reported that music promotes memory better than either silence or background noise. Valentine and her colleague selected 23 subjects with dementia to be tested for recall after being exposed to four different types of noise. The four types were no noise, cafeteria noise, familiar music, and novel music. Recall was better with sound than with silence and