Triggered From The Raven Standard Progressive Matrices Test And Thinking

The relationship between music and intelligence has been one of the heated topics for scholars all over the world since American psychologist Roger Sperry discovered the functional differences between two hemispheres of brain. According to Sperry, the left brain is "music brain" which specializes in imagery thinking, and the right brain is " verbal brain" which specializes in abstract thinking. Music is hence related to the development of brain, or in other words, music is related to the development of intelligence. Therefore we have a critical question here: whether music education will contribute to the development of music brain and the whole brain? Therefore, this paper studies the relations between music and intelligence and intends to explore whether college students who have long-term music education demonstrate higher intelligence than those don't have.In this research, Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices (RPM) is used to test music majors and non-music majors, to see whether there are intelligence differences between these two groups. Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices (RPM) is a non-verbal intelligence test based on Spearman's idea of a two-factor theory of intelligence. RPM mainly test people's ability to find out problems and solve the problems with all the information available.By comparing the intelligence difference between students of music majors and non-music majors, we find that there is a big difference between music majors with years of music education and those non-music majors who haven't had any systematic music education:1,There are significant intelligence differences between music majors and non-music majors.2,There were no significant intelligence differences between different genders.3,Significant intelligence differences were demonstrated between music majors and non-musicones in the same grade.4,No significant intelligence differences between freshman and seniors of the same major.5,There were significant intelligent differences between students who have long-term musiceducation and those who don't have.6,Parents' education level is relevant to students' intelligence.