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| parapsychology is concerned with psychological phenomena that are to the side of, or go beyond the main area of psychological knowledge and interest. |
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| List and explain the 2 areas of parapsychology |
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-psychokinesis - study of experiences in which the thought of an individual is said to influence the performance of some physical object or event -extra sensory perseption - investigates experiences in which knowledge appears to be gained independently of the known sense
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| transfer of thought from one person to another without the use of senses |
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| For what 3 reasons do some psychologists doubt E.S.P.? |
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1) easily faked 2) not many of the ESP experiments have been repeated to see if the results are the same. 3) there is a tendency to be wary aout very unusual phenomena
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