RHY.14:4.4 - Elicit the response actually needed

Ask a participant about the stated response to the passage. “How much did you want to move?” and “How much pleasure did you experience?” are different questions. Give a scale an understandable meaning if a scale is useful; ordinary contrasting descriptions may be sufficient for a rehearsal.

Keep response tasks separate when combining them would change their interpretation. Tapping adds a performed action; a continuous rating occupies attention; a body map reports felt location rather than directly recording movement. Asking after the passage avoids some competing actions but introduces recall. Choose according to the needed result and keep the task with the response.

If actual movement matters, observe what occurred: for example, movement began, remained aligned with selected beats, continued through a gap or stopped. A wish to move is not an observation of those actions. If partner readability matters, obtain the partner’s discrimination or agreed response at the relevant point, rather than infer it from the producer’s confidence.

Record consequential differences in familiarity, reference interpretation, preparation, arrangement and opportunity to move. A seated listener who was asked to remain still has not had the same action opportunity as a freely moving participant. Use only the personal information needed for the comparison.