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Other important considerations in choosing behaviors to be recorded come from the experimental methodologies of cognitive psychology itself. The researcher seeks a systematic body of observations that are well suited to treatment by various analytical techniques. The available techniques restrict the kinds of observations that can be treated. Moreover, to understand the relationship between the music and the listener's experience, it is essential to vary properties of the external musical event and trace how these changes affect the pattern of responding. In this connection, we speak of the external musical event as the stimulus, and the changes made in the stimulus as experimental manipulations