PSY 220: Research Design and Statistics

This study was designed to examine the effects of music on reading comprehension. Participants (N = 22, 59 % female) completed three reading comprehension tests while listening to no music, classical music, and lyrical music. Reading comprehension in the no music condition was slightly better than in the classical music and lyrical music conditions, however this difference was not significant (p =.94). For future study, researchers should equalize test difficulty before conducting a similar experiment