1. JOURNAL – DO NOW Imagine you’re listening to a new song.
Write down what goes through your mind when you are deciding whether you like it?

2. Linking units together to help explain behavior, personality and intelligence.

3. MUSIC PSYCHOLOGY Imagine you’re listening to a new song and deciding whether you like it.
That snap decision involves more than you might think. Because the likeability of music is so subjective, we all have our own personal preferences that go into our judgments.
What you may not realize, though, is the depth of the physiological process that every individual’s brain goes through in determining whether a song pleases them or repels them.

6. Music Psychology
Almost your entire brain is involved in processing music.
Regions responsible for movement, attention, planning, and memory are all activated.
The brain decides whether to release dopamine or not. The more activity shown in this region, the more likely the song has reached or surpassed the basic expectations, and the more likely dopamine will be released.

7. Music Psychology
Dopamine, a neurotransmitter released in the brain, is triggered by rewarding stimuli such as tasty food, certain drugs, even experiences like getting flowers on your birthday.
Musical information gets translated in the auditory cortex. If the song is familiar and pleasurable, the auditory cortex sends chemical signals to the striatum, where dopamine is released.
Yes, that chill, “feel-good” sensation is dopamine rewarding you for listening to that song.

8. The following clip is from the movie 500 Days of Summer
The following clip is from the movie 500 Days of Summer. In this context, assume the protagonist, Tom, is listening to a song he likes and showing us how our brain feels when dopamine is released.

9. Music Psychology
These standards are rooted in the history of music each individual has listened to over their lifetime, information stored in our temporal lobe.
This storage creates a template of what types of music, or genres, your brain is familiar with, and therefore likes to process.
Think about the last time you did something without wanting to listen to music in the background.
Music pumps us up, but can also calm us down. We often attach music to emotional difficulties, yet it has the ability to liberate us, too.

10. Whether it’s for entertainment or therapy, music makes us more cooperative and willing to do tasks that otherwise we would find tedious, like cleaning, working, exercising, or studying. Once the dopamine is in effect, your brain is motivated to keep going and get things done faster.

11. Music Psychology
The clip above from the movie 10 Things I Hate About You exemplifies how music has become an expression of our emotions.
When we put on our headphones, we basically do the same thing: listen to songs that become the background music to our life stories.
The experience of music is dependent on our emotions and surroundings; our song selections have honed in on emotion as much as musical preferences.

12. How does music affect our behavior and cognitive function?
Musician Stevie Wonder has said that "music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand." Music is a language, with or without words, serving as a medium for people from all walks of life to express their deepest thoughts and emotions. In fact, author Leo Tolstoy has described music as "the shorthand of emotion".
Applications:
Autism
BiPolar Disorder
Sleep Disorder
Elderly
Parenting, plus others
Human beings are not meant to live in isolation. Our complex nature, along with a host of other emotional, physical and spiritual drives, cause us to form groups. The smallest social unit is the family, which spawns larger groups, communities, and finally nations. Human beings crave connection with others.

14. Music Psychology
Given the amazing ability of music to express the complex emotions of human beings, it is not surprising that music plays an important role in the creation and maintenance of social groups and subcultures.
Throughout history, people with common goals, ideas and beliefs have bonded together, and the music of this subculture is an important rallying point for them, and often expresses their beliefs.

15. Civil Rights Movement of the 60’s - inspired many anthems of freedom that will be always associated with it, such as "We Shall Overcome" and "Blowing in the Wind".

16. Popular Music of the 70’s
The 1970s created a perfect musical bridge from the rebelliousness of the 1960s and the happy songs that are characteristic of the 1980s.
Following the counterculture of the 60s, the 70s created a trend of relaxing music as well as dance music.
People were growing tired of the fighting that happened in the previous decade and many of them sought refuge in dance clubs and other places to enjoy a good time.

17. Popular Music of the 70’s
Out of this idea emerged the Disco movement. Of course, there were still the bands and artists that continued to speak of the ills of society, although the rebellious idea had died down shortly following Woodstock in The 1970's was a unique decade in that it was a musical bridge connecting the hippie lifestyle of the 1960s with the characteristic yuppie lifestyle that was about to occur in the 1980s.

18. Popular Music of the 70’s Beginning of the 70’s still about war
End of the 70’s dance and fun disco

19. POPULAR MUSIC OF THE 80’S
Music in the 1980s was all about image and with the advent and popularity of MTV, the images that accompanied artists became more important than ever.
The 1980s reflected the beginning of a period of great income disparity, tolerance and a focus on affluence was reflected in the music. There were also several new genres that popped up including, Hip Hop, New Wave and Hair Metal, all of which have influenced music today.

20. POPULAR MUSIC OF THE 80’S https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEj93paUdh4

21. CLOSING: (Exit Ticket)
Working with the person next to you, come up with a song/artist that had an impact on each of you in some way. Write it down on the card provided and leave it in the basket on your way out the door.