The Mozart Effect, which was developed by Dr. Gordon Shaw, is a theory that listening to classical music will make you smarter. Dr. Shaw’s studies have shown that listening to classical music like Mozart’s Sonata in D major for Two Pianos resulted in higher IQ test scores. When the students listened to classical music for just a few minutes prior to the test, their scores increased by as much as nine points. Dr. Shaw also tested his theory on children as well. He took a group of preschool aged children and had them take six months of piano keyboard lessons. According to the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine when the children were given “spatial-temporal reasoning tests calibrated for their age” their performance was “more than thirty percent better than that of children given computer lessons for six months or no extra training.”
The early stages of a child’s life are the most important. This is when they are learning the most about things, what is right, what is wrong, how to do things and so on. Their brains tend to soak up information like a sponge, no matter if its good information or bad information, and they tend to …show more content…
In the American Academy of Pediatrics article. It stated that “A study in 1999 with a sample of 345 mothers from public schools revealed that 47% of the mothers believed that violent messages in rap music contribute to school violence yet, according to a 2007 report from the Kaiser Family Foundation on parents, children, and the media, only 9% of parents revealed being concerned about inappropriate content in music.” This is outrageous. In just eight short years parents went from believing that school violence could be caused by popular music to only nine percent being concerned about what their children are listening to. This goes to show that music does have an effect on our
The early stages of a child’s life are the most important. This is when they are learning the most about things, what is right, what is wrong, how to do things and so on. Their brains tend to soak up information like a sponge, no matter if its good information or bad information, and they tend to …show more content…
In the American Academy of Pediatrics article. It stated that “A study in 1999 with a sample of 345 mothers from public schools revealed that 47% of the mothers believed that violent messages in rap music contribute to school violence yet, according to a 2007 report from the Kaiser Family Foundation on parents, children, and the media, only 9% of parents revealed being concerned about inappropriate content in music.” This is outrageous. In just eight short years parents went from believing that school violence could be caused by popular music to only nine percent being concerned about what their children are listening to. This goes to show that music does have an effect on our