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Does music affect reaction time?

Does music affect reaction time?. By Scott Davis, Eric Liu Ye and Lachlan Smith. Aim and Hypothesis. Aim: To determine whether or not music can affect the reaction time of year 9 students and if so, to determine if different types of music affect the reaction time of year 9 students most.

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Does music affect reaction time?

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  1. Does music affect reaction time? By Scott Davis, Eric Liu Ye and Lachlan Smith

  2. Aim and Hypothesis Aim: To determine whether or not music can affect the reaction time of year 9 students and if so, to determine if different types of music affect the reaction time of year 9 students most. Hypothesis: The reaction times of the test subjects will noticeably change when listening to different types of music. Students will have best reaction times when not listening to music, second best results when listening to classical music, third best when listening to death metal music and worst reaction times when listen to dub step/electro music.

  3. Method • In our test, year 9 students would have to do a reaction test (located at this website: http://getyourwebsitehere.com/jswb/rttest01.html ) 4 times. The first time doing the test, the subject will do it without music as a control. The subject will then repeat the test 3 times, listening to a different song from the list below each time: • This list is the name and genre of the 3 songs used: • Fur Elise – Classical • Big Boss – Dub-Step/Electronica • Not The Fallen – Death Metal • The order of the songs used in the test were random for each test subject. This was done to prevent test subjects from having best results on a set last song due to practice.

  4. Results No Music Dub Step/Electro Death Metal Classical

  5. Conclusion Contrary to our hypothesis, on average year 9 students did not have noticeably different reaction times when listening to different types of music. Despite there occasionally being differences of almost 10 milliseconds between a person’s tests, the average difference between the tests was, at largest, approximately 2 milliseconds. • Improvements: • Although a valid experiment, as the variables were controlled, there are some improvements that could be made to make the test more accurate: • 1. We could have tested students in a quieter, less active room. Students were tested in a classroom so even when people were tested with no music there was the distraction of other students. • 2. We could have used a better quality reaction time test instead of one found on the internet LISTENING TO MUSIC DID NOT HAVE A SIGNIFIGANT AFFECT ON YEAR 9 STUDENTS REACTION TIMES

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