With respect to thinking, when students first start college they question personal and social values believe in the existence of clear and perfect truths carefully consider many opposing ideas become committed to a set of personal values

answer: musical connotation

leonard b. meyer (1918-2007) was an american composer, author and philosopher. his work emotion and meaning in music is perhaps the first major treatise on music. it is a philosophical and psychological work, greatly influenced by koffka (one of the major proponents of gestalt psychology). his work deals with the problem of musical meaning and musical communication.