Psychology of Music Midterm Cross Word Puzzle

Schizophrenia: A severe mental/social disorder characterized by an inability to discern what is
Psychomotor domain: Regarding Bloom’s Taxonomy, the domain of learning characterized by physical movement, coordination, and use of the motor-skill
Affective domain: Regarding Bloom’s Taxonomy, the domain of learning characterized by feelings and emotional
Cognitive domain: Regarding Bloom’s Taxonomy, the domain of learning characterize by the ability to acquire and apply knowledge or
Hypothalamus: The part of the brain that is very active in regulating our primary instincts and emotional
Pathemia: A condition where an individual has a tendency to live at the hypothalamic level in which the individual operates at a constant, heightened emotional
Music aptitude: The measure of a student’s potential to learn
Music achievement: A measure of what a student has already learned in
Reasons for music aptitude tests: To identify and assess a student’s potential strengths and weaknesses in
Subtests: A section of a music aptitude test devoted to one specific trait, i.e. rhythm, meter, pitch,
Percentile ranks: The percentage of a score that below a particular
Raw score: An unaltered, unadjusted test score or
Validity: The accuracy of what a music aptitude test claims to
Reliability: The consistency of the results of a music aptitude
Mean: A sum divided by the count resulting in an
Median: The middle of a sorted list of
Standard deviation: The average amount of difference or deviation from the mean in a sample
Empirical: Data or research gathered through observation and experience rather than theory or
Surgency: A trait aspect of emotional reactivity in which an individual tends towards high positive
Homogenous: Refers to being of the same kind; similar;
Ergic: Exhibiting or stimulating activity
Ergic tension: A person’s drive; propensity towards
Psychotic: Suffering from psychosis, a mental disorder that impairs thoughts and
Cortertia: The tendency to think rather than
Sublimation: A defense mechanism where socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are unconsciously transformed into socially acceptable actions or
Cognition: The mental process or action of gaining and understanding
Neurotic: Suffering from neurosis, involving symptoms of stress, depression, anxiety, and hypochondria, but not a radical loss of
Dichotomous: Exhibiting or characterized by dichotomy, a division or contrast between two things that are represented as being opposed or entirely
Eurythmic: In or relating to harmonious
Negative practice: A method of correction in which an individual is forced to repeat a targeted behavior until the individual becomes fatigued of said