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THE EFFECTS OF CONTINGENT MUSIC ON THE INTENSITY OF NOISE IN JUNIOR HIGH HOME ECONOMICS CLASSES 1
Author(s) -
Wilson Cheryl Wright,
Hopkins B. L.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1901/jaba.1973.6-269
Subject(s) - quiet , decibel , noise (video) , psychology , presentation (obstetrics) , active listening , class (philosophy) , audiology , music education , mathematics education , intensity (physics) , multiple baseline design , communication , pedagogy , computer science , artificial intelligence , intervention (counseling) , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics , psychiatry , image (mathematics) , radiology
The effects of quiet‐contingent music on the general noise levels of four seventh‐ and eighth‐grade classrooms were investigated. Following a baseline procedure, popular radio music was used to reinforce maintenance of noise below an acceptable level of intensity, 70 decibels, in three of the four classes. In the fourth class, a reversal design was used to show that the contingent presentation of the radio music was important to control the noise produced by the students. The teacher was free to engage in instructional activities because data collection and presentation of music were controlled by automatic apparatus.