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After reading the following article, print and answer this quiz. Quiz due March 30, 2007.

W. Jay Dowling (1999). The development of music perception and cognition. In: Diana Deutsch (Ed.), Psychology of Music. 2nd edition. San Diego: Academic Press. pp. 603-625

Answer the following questions:

1. About what age do children begin to sing spontaneously?

   • 6 months
   • 9 months
   • 12 months
   • 18 months
   • 24 months

2. About what age do children tend to maintain a stable pitch center throughout the singing of a song?

   • 2 years
   • 3 years
   • 4 years
   • 5 years
   • 8 years
   • 10 years

3. What is pitch constancy?

   • the tendency for older children to maintain a stable pitch when singing
   • the tendency for tones with the same fundamental frequency to be heard as having the same pitch
   • the tendency for young children to recall specific pitches rather than intervals or pitch contours
   • the tendency to hear slight differences in tuning as the "same" pitch

4. In Western countries, approximately what proportion of musicians have absolute pitch?

   • less than 1%
   • 1-2%
   • 2-4%
   • 4-8%

5. In what country is absolute pitch common?

   • Japan
   • Korea
   • China
   • Germany

6. According to Takeuchi and Hulse (1993), about what age does the "critical period" end for acquiring absolute pitch?

   • 6 years
   • 8 years
   • 10 years
   • 12 years

7. Among children, which melodic feature is most salient?

   • absolute pitch
   • interval
   • contour
   • scale degree

8. Which of the following sounds do newborn infants prefer?

   • low-pass filtered (muffled) speech
   • lullabies
   • little bells
   • purring cat

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