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| Author(s): |
Viviane Freire Bueno
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2006-05-19 |
| Examining board members: |
Nielsy Helena Puglia Bergamasco;
Arno Engelmann;
Elizeu Coutinho de Macedo
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| Advisor: | Nielsy Helena Puglia Bergamasco |
| Field of knowledge: | Humanities - Psychology |
| Indexed in: |
Banco de Dados Bibliográficos da USP-DEDALUS;
Index Psi Teses - IP/USP |
| Location: | Universidade de São Paulo. Biblioteca do Instituto de Psicologia; BF261; B928e |
| Abstract | |
The aim of the present study was to assess the childrens judgement on the gustatory pleasantness and mood generated by associating the taste and music in congruent and contrast stimulus context. Congruent stimuli had the same affective valence while the contrast stimuli had a divergent affective valence. Eighty three children, males and females, age five to ten were assessed. The participants represented a sample of middle-low social class. The participant were asked to taste the suprathreshold solutions of sucrose and the caffeine in the absence of music, to identify it as sweet or bitter and to make a judgement of the gustatory sensation in terms of pleasing or displeasing by choosing a schematic face representative of the initial mood state. In the second stage of the task, the participants listened to popular music pre-qualified as happy and sad. Initially they were asked to judge the mood transmitted by the music and then while listening to the music went again through the gustative judgement task. The results show that children in this study sample recognized and distinguished the sweet from bitter tastes and were able to judge the gustative pleasantness sensation and the consequent mood. This study also shows that childrens judgement on sweet and bitter taste as well as mood can be changed by the music execution. This change occurred in the presence of a bitter taste and happy music altering the mood judgment from sad to happy. In presence of the sweet taste and sad music the mood was altered from happy to sad. The study showed that the use of sensory tests with children can generate good results and they might be considered a contribution collaborator of details in the experimental arrangements. It is also proposed that the variation in the judgement on the gustative pleasantness sensation and mood is contingent on, among others factors, the development of the gustative and auditory sensitivity along the age groups, the way attention, memory and affective skills are used, the different sensory stimulus context and the improvement of sensory integration at the age of 7, specifically in the case of congruent stimulus. (AU) | |