A questionnaire was adopted to conduct the pre-test and post-test of the experiment, which were done to analyze the factors that affect the attitude of students toward music learning and the effect of piano teaching. Forty-five students were chosen from nine classes in grades 2, 4, and 6 of a central elementary school in Beijing City using experimental research, and the experimental group and the control group were set up. 3School of Sociology and Psychology, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, ChinaĪiming at the problem of low student enthusiasm in piano teaching, this work tried to apply “Pygmalion effect” to piano teaching from the perspective of educational psychology.2Academy of Music, Linyi University, Linyi, China.1College of Dance, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China.