Voice

Voice affects interpretation and meaning

Developmental Attributions

Gender

Female

Social interaction needed, sensitive to noise, needs a calm atmosphere

Male

Competitive activities, need to move, and needs some stress to encourage performance

Gender Neutral

Needs clear and direct instruction

Piaget

use the knowledge students already have to form opinions and allow students to accommodate new ideas.

Vygotsky

Use the "zone of proximal development" to further knowledge and teach one another through social interaction.

fifteen to sixteen year olds

Interests

Attention Grabbers

Needs breaks and allow for deviations from the main topic

Relevance

Group Work

Needs communication with peers

Units in Discipline

Health: Mental Health

Language Arts: Public Speaking

Physical Science: Communication

Music: Song and Lyrics

Voices in different languages

Narrowed Down: The pitch, tone, and frequency of speaking in different languages are interpreted very differently to someone who does not speak that language.

Defining Features: Finding the exact frequency of an individual speaking and determining their mood and intention solely from the frequency pitch.

Example 1: Hungarian pitch is low and Chinese pitch is high, difference measuring about half an octave difference on a piano, the Hungarian person sounds angry and the Chinese person.

Example 2: Finnish speakers have a very low frequency whereas Danish speakers are more middle ground.

Example 3: Female U.S. speakers have a 10hz higher score than European females causing U.S. females to sound happier.

Prototypes: Hungarian/Chinese and Finnish/Danish

Non-Examples: Female U.S. and Female U.K.

Misconception via undergeneralization: All Asian cultures are high frequency voice tones.

Misconception via overgeneralization: All females have a higher pitch frequency in their voices.

Correlational Feature 1: German and Hungarian individuals are angry due to their low frequency pitch

Correlational Feature 2: Danish individuals have no feelings since their pitch is middle ground which makes them sound monotone

Correlational Feature 3: Males have an authoritative voice due to their lower voice frequencies.