Sophia, Mother of One-Year-Old Peter, Has Heard About the Mozart

Multiple Choice

Sophia, mother of one-year-old Peter, has heard about the Mozart effect and decides to find out more about it before she invests in buying CDs of all of Mozart's works. Based on her research, she discovers all of the following are true except

A) the Mozart effect lasts for only about 10 minutes
B) the same effects that were found with college students apply to preschoolers
C) musical training appears to boost performance on spatial-temporal tasks
D) it is not clear whether music instruction affects certain cognitive abilities because music has unique experiential properties or whether music instruction supports the development of cognitive abilities such as attention, concentration, and memorization