PROCEDURE
Measurement of Change in Emotional Arousal
By"activation" is meant here the combined emotional -cognitive system.
Emotional activation, modulated by cognitive operations,would ideally be measured directly. Unfortunately,however, physiological instruments still do not measure much more than the fact that there is some degree of emotional activation
under very artificial conditions (Machleidt, Gutjahr, & Mugge,1990). consequently,a questionnaire requiring answers on a seven -point Likert scale (from 0 to 6)was constructed to measure the degree to which individuals judged specific adjectives as appropriate for describing the music input. The questionnaire contained (58) adjectives designed to measure emotional activity in response to (CMS)and(CLS).The adjectives were taken from alist developed by Hevner (1936, 1937) and Lienert (1989).