Anxiety disorders are on the rise among children and adolescents, and anxiety tends to spike during the school year. A study published in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics estimates that approximately 2 million American children and adolescents have a diagnosable anxiety disorder. Child anxiety often looks like intense anger and a complete lack of emotional regulation. Anxious kids can appear clingy, overwhelmed and sad. They are likely to burst into tears without explanation. Anxiety in adolescence typically centers on changes in the way the adolescent`s body looks and feels, social acceptance, and conflicts about independence. Exposure therapy, a type of CBT, focuses on increasing exposure to feared objects or activities. Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors are the medications most frequently used for treating anxiety disorders.
xpectations for the style of the music. Also, different styles can be associated with the language genealogy. For example, he considers that Bach and Beethoven represent different styles belonging to the same family-style, while Mozart and Machaut belong to different styles.
As in architecture, so in music there are definitions with the words baroque, rococo, goth, romantic. The name expresses a time and comes from the name that marked this period. The philosophy of each period has gone into the face of every art, architecture and music.
Specifically, Baroque music clearly emphasizes the ornamentation of the basic body of music and, with the advent of the classical period, these decorations have begun to disappear. It is obvious that comparisons are direct between architectural-Baroque and musical-Baroque as is the case for other species.
II.2. Psychology of Gestalt
The fundamental principle behind Gestalt’s perception is the “Pragnanz Law”, according to which we tend to organize our experiences in a way that is: regular, orderly, symmetrical and simple. Pragnanz’s thoughts have been concretized into categories, which help to predict some trends in specific cases. These rules are often called “Gestalt Laws”.
The Principle of Proximity
The first rule presented by Wertheimer [1938] is the Principle of Proximity, which states that “in a set of similar objects, those close to each other will create groups”.
The analogy in musical perception is when instead of space we put time as a factor and replace objects with notes. [James Tenney, 1977]
In the example above, the notes where they are closest, and those played together, create a sound group, while silence is their dividing line.
The Principle of Similarity
A second rule of Wertheimer [1938] is the Principle of Similarity, that states: “In a set of visual elements, those that are similar tend to form visual groups.”
