The effects of level of interest in music as measured by the Kuder (Form CH, scale 7), and pre-experimental set on amount of incidental learning as factual material about composers of music, inferred from the performance of a multiple-choice test especially constructed for this purpose, were investigated. A significant relationship was found between interest and amount of incidental learning. General academic performance (GPA) was also found to influence scores on the test of incidental learning, and a regression equation for the two variables was calculated.
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