Phil and Mickie Disagree About the Merits of Jazz-Fusion Music

question 11

Multiple Choice

Phil and Mickie disagree about the merits of jazz-fusion music.Phil points to the boundary-stretching possibilities of including electric instruments in advancing improvisation.Mickie counters with the loss of "dance-ability" present in big band/swing jazz.Their discussion of jazz music can best be understood to encapsulate the (nonmoral) application of which theory?

• A) individual subjectivism
• B) emotivism
• C) nihilism
• D) error theory

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Definitions:

Hypnotized

The state of having decreased peripheral awareness and an increased focus on a single stimulus, often induced by another person.

Psychological Dependence

A condition in which an individual feels a compulsion to continue using a substance or engaging in behavior due to emotional or psychological needs.

Physical Dependence

A physiological state of adaptation to a substance, resulting in withdrawal symptoms when that substance is reduced or removed.

Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis

Premise that states that dreams are created by the higher centers of the cortex to explain the activation by the brain stem of cortical cells during REM sleep periods.