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The Effect of Music on Performance of a Task.
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The Effect of Music on Performance of a Task Abstract - The aim of this study was to see whether music affected performance of a task. This was based on similar previous research by Mayfield and Moss (1989). Twenty participants were selected aged 16-17 by opportunity sampling. The method was to conduct a maths test with ten participants doing it with music and ten without music. It was hypothesised that there would be a significant difference between fast music and no music from the results participants got from their maths test results. A two-tailed Mann-Whitney U test at a significance level of p=0.05 revealed the null hypothesis was rejected and the experimental hypothesis was accepted. The data suggested showed that having fast music worsened your performance of the task and having no music improved the performance of the task. From the results achieved further research could focus on issues such as...
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