Acta Psychologica Sinica


Volume 26 No 4, pp. 385-392 (November 1994)

THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMOTION JUDGEMENT AND IMAGINATION IN THE PROCESS OF MUSIC APPRECIATION IN CHILDREN

LIANG Chengmou, ZHANG Yongwei and ZHENG Jinwen

Abstract

The experiment was designed to study the emotion judgement and imagination level in Chinese children at the age of 3 to 10 after music appreciation. The results showed that, for children significant differences appeared in accuracy of judgement of happiness and sadness; in emotion judgement, the accuracy rate in happiness was higher than in sadness for preschool children; after the children began to study in primary schools, the accuracy in judging sadness increased rapidly; the imagination index increased slowly as they grew; the number of accurate judgement is significantly correlates to the number of imagination-producing.
Keywords: children; emotion; judgement; music appriciation; imagination index

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