please help me design an experiment on the idea that using an ipod?

Question

or similar music player which you use via earpiece affects
controlled movement ie. motor control any idea would help thanks

Answer 1

You could have participants performing some simple motor tasks. Challenging, but not impossible (ie putting a simple puzzle together, putting shapes in a block, clicking on a moving mouse target on the computer.) and record time and accuracy, then repeat the process without the ipod and see if results improve, decline or stay the same.

Answer 2

Im not sure I follow what you are asking but ok here goes....Music affects heart rate....so the type of music selected fast or slow would then correlate to the type of activity. In other words if I were going for a run or a swim I would want fast upbeat music to maintain the high output needed for such activities. Now if I were to put in a slower song or two at specific intervals how would that affect my run? Would I slow for those periods? Once I develop a rythm in my run if I put a faster paced song in or one that makes me particularly happy will my pace increase? Can i make myself go into a rest period by placing slower paced music on my MP3 player? If so can I produce a fartlek run by using only music?
These would be easy to reproduce. You would need runners who can run a normal pace though. Then simply by giving them musical selections does it affect their run?

I might have been using affect when I should have used effect by the way.

Answer 3

You should make an experiment about "why ipods are dangerous." The usual CD earphones have a soft material around them to make sound softer, because soft things absorbes sound waves, so the CD earphones were less harm full. Now the Ipod earphones don't have any soft material around them so the sound waves go straight to you ears, which makes it harmful to your ears because it's extra loud. Also its so close to your smallest bones the ossicals ( hammer, anvil and stirrup) they are very sensitive, so your Ipod earphones are this close (-)
to your most sensitive bones. That can cause hearing aide at a young age. So you should have an earphone with soft material around them and plug it up to your ipod play it at its highest volume. Then switch it up, put the other earphone with no soft material in to your ipod and put the volume up. Them you can see the difference. Good luck.

Answer 4

How many people I irritate when using too high a volume!!