Children and their perception of food influenced by music Christy Allen Kelly Regan HEINZ WERNER.

Heinz Werner

Children and their perception of food influenced by music

Christy AllenKelly ReganHeinz WernerBiographical sketch: Grew up in Vienna, AustriaVery studious boy also very interested in musicStumbled across a psychology class in college and changed his majorJoined Psychological Institute in Hamberg where he became involved with Gestalt psychologyKicked out by Nazis and moved to the United StatesMoved around and finally settled into a positition at Clark UniversityAt Clark University: his research consisted of perception, space perception, language and symbolization and clinical research using inkblot tests.

Former students remember Werner as a formal but kindly man who was extremely open-minded and had a rare ability to draw out the best in his students (Crain, pg 95)

2Important terms and ideasSelf-object differentiationGradual process by which children separate themselves from their environment Sensorimotor: Infants hardly experience an outside world apart their own immediate actions, sensations and feelings. Only know the objects that they suck on, feel, and graspNo outside world apart from my immediate actions Perceptual: perceiving things out there, apart from themselves, gain a measurement of objectivityThe outside world feels and thinks like me. Similar to ChildhoodConceptual: begin to think in a very general and abstract dimensionAware of all other people and their point of view (that are different to mine). Adolescence and on

Development is teleological always moving towards an mature end state.

Microgenetic MobilityThe ability to utilize both primitive and advanced forms of thinking.

The more creative the person, the wider his range of operations in terms of developmental level, or in other words, the greater his capacity to utilize primitive as well as advanced operations.

Microgenesis:

The developmental process that occurs each time we confront a task. The brain takes a stimuli and filters it through the banks until it can accommodate it.

Organisimic Orientation:

We should study psychological processes as they occur within the whole, acting, feeling, striving organism. It is a holistic approach to things.

The orthogenetic principle

Development process from a relative lack of differentiation and grows to an increased state of differentiation and hierarchic integration

Differentiation:

When a global whole separates into parts with different forms or functions

Hierarchic Integration:

behaviors come under the control of higher regulating centers

Physiognomic Perception vs. Geometric-Technical PerceptionGeometric-Technical perception: - how we perceive an object in terms of objective, rigid, and measurable properties- More realistic and matter of fact- Everyday life

Physiognomic Perception-The way in which one perceives and reacts to dynamic emotional stimuli- developmentally early ability in which there is little differentiation between perceptual, motor, and imaginal processes - No separation between personal and impersonal qualities, perceived in context of feeling and action. - Animate and expresses some inner form of life

Synesthesia: Unity of the sensesWerner believed that initially all senses flowed together in one common feeling, which is known as the sensorium commune.

This is explains the existence of synaesthetic experiences, in which sounds are simultaneously experienced as colors and colors as sounds.

One specific stimulus many arouse not only the specifically corresponding sensation, but a second sensation with the first

Color-tone synaesthesia: when the perceiving individual sees color while listening to tone

- Furthermore, this exemplifies that stimuli presented to different sensory domains influence each other and that organization of a stable and articulated perceptual world is rooted in and develops out of vital sensations.

Our project overview: Guiding Questions: What influences a childs perception? Can perception of food be completely changed by simple discoloration of the picture? Or by background music? Does a childs preference towards the different kinds of food affect their perception of them? Does age influence the effect of synesthesia?

Hypotheses: The children will perceive food differently based on the music and color. If the music is upbeat there will be a positive reaction, or if it is somber there will be a negative perception. The same applies to vivid versus sephia tone pictures. The older a child gets the more likely they are to perceive the pictures objectively with cognitive thought than be swayed by the influences on their sensesOur subjects and procedure:Subjects: We tested at Norton Elementary SchoolThe subjects were boys and girls from the second and third grade classes, ages 7-9Procedure: First picture: BroccoliSecond Picture: Ice CreamThird Picture: DoritosFourth Picture: Broccoli with circus musicFifth Picture: Ice Cream with circus musicSixth Picture: Doritos with circus music

Seventh Picture: Broccoli with funeral marchEight Picture: Ice Cream with funeral marchNinth Picture: Doritos with funeral marchTenth Picture: Discolored broccoliEleventh Picture: Discolored ice creamTwelfth Picture: Discolored Doritos

Results:

1: Did not respond consistent with theories in any way2: Had one response consistent with theory3: Had two- three responses consistent with theory4: Responded completely consistent with theoryColor 7 yrsColor 8 yrsColor 9 yrsDevelopment of synesthesia: ages

Development of synesthesia: Gender

Result Conclusions: Childrens Age Synesthesia

A majority of the participants especially the younger childrens results were influenced by the music. For example, Joshua said he did not like broccoli (gross, awful, icky) without the music, with the music (carnival music) he choose yummy, delcisious, I love it for words that describe broccoli, and for the funeral music, he choose icky, horrible, and mom makes me eat it for words that describe broccoli

Children of all ages were greatly influenced by the color of the picture. Almost all the children responded negatively to the sephia toned picture.

17IF repeated: Bigger group of kidsEven number of boys and girls Even distribution of ages Simpler data collection toolKids were sitting close together, might have influenced their responses Less complex procedureThey were distracted by lunch, time constraints Wider range of agesNature versus NurtureNature NurtureDevelopment cannot be prompted, one must wait until the child reaches the particular stage. He/she cannot be forced to learn or percieve the world in a certain way. NameBroccoliIce CreamDoritosTotal

Joshua44412

Meghan44311

Evyn3339

Kennedi3339

Gage4228

Hotaru3339

Lucas3339

Ashton3227

Avery34411

Nolan2338

Lucinda3339

Summer3328

Megan2226

Daniel3227

Aiden3227

Connor3339

Anya43310

Grace43310

Emma3227

Dalton3227

Abby3339

Amari2226

Phillip3227

Chart111889989969777109111097767

7 years old8 years old9 years old

Sheet17 years old8 years old9 years old11889989969777109111097767

Chart17107107779969876119898111299

BoysGirls

Sheet1Column1BoysGirlsSeries 371027102773795969876119898111299

Chart1111057561427552

SalesBroccoli

Sheet1SalesYummy11Delicious10Disgusting5Gross7Nasty5I love it!6Mom makes me eat it!1Tasty4Sweet2Good7Awful5Icky5Horrible2To update the chart, enter data into this table. The data is automatically saved in the chart.

Chart110955253355544

SalesCarnival Music


Chart17757345532667

SalesFuneral March


Chart117170001905123000

SalesIce Cream


Chart1202316090664000

SalesCarnival Music


Chart114141221208113221

SalesFuneral March


Chart1151234280539143

SalesDoritos


Chart11310342807310153

SalesCarnival Music


Chart11211143101624646

SalesFuneral March


Children and their perception of food influenced by music Christy Allen Kelly Regan HEINZ WERNER.

Documents

Transcript of Children and their perception of food influenced by music Christy Allen Kelly Regan HEINZ WERNER.