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| What is the term used for objects or trinkets (associated with a dead person) which are conjured up during a seance? |
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| The fox sisters were apparently able to fraudulently produce rapping sounds through which unusual talent? |
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| Which Catholic saint saw an apparition of their sister amongst the saints in heaven? |
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| unconscious or preconscious psi |
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| Don, McDonough and Warren used brain EEG activity to investigate psi-abilities. Their findings suggested the presence of what phenomenon? |
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| What is the term for a mediums connection with the dead? |
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| Which famous chemist investigated Maggie Fox and D.D. Hume as well as helping to found the Society for Psychical Research? |
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| When psi-abilities fall under close scrutiny, it is because psi is described as a ___________ phenomenon? |
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| Which Catholic church saint experienced traveling clairvoyance or an out-of-body experience which took him to the bedside of a dying pope? |
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| What is the term used to describe a sleepwalker or someone under the influence of hypnotism? |
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| Which ancient Greek philosopher saw truthful dreams as an intervention of the Gods? |
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| Which notable 20th century spiritualist was known for producing peraphin waxworks as souvenirs of his seances? |
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| The Fox family named the entity which was rapping on their walls the intelligence. Who did the intelligence identify itself as? |
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| What french nobelman helped to re-popularize Mesmerism? |
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| What physician was interested in using hypnotism as an artificial anesthetic? |
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| Which of the following is not a school of divination/ Belomancy, Utromancy, Capnomancy, Rhabdomancy |
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| What was the title of the first organized body of psychical research? |
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| Individuals who possess multiple ESP abilities are said to have what? |
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1.Sense of well-being
2. Separation from the body
3.Entering the darkness
4.Seeing the light
5.Entering the light |
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| What are Rings five stages of a near death experience? |
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| The CIA sunk a significant amount of funds and personnel developing a psychic defense network known as? |
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| Which 19th century magician went from being a believer in Spiritualism to its greatest antagonistic investigator? |
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| What is the term for the following ESP ability? The aquisition of information directly from an external object or physical event, not through the thoughts or perceptions of someone else |
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| Who was Prospero Lambertini? |
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Basic science is set out to increase knowledge.
Applied science goal is to solve practical problems and look for specific solutions. |
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| What is the difference between basic and applied science? |
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Make informal observations
Form alternative hypothesis
empirically testing your hypothesis |
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| What are the steps in the scientific process? |
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hypothesis has confirmatory data
systematic manipulation
and systematic measurement |
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Inconsistentconsiquences (DV)
innacurate conceptualization (
confounding variable
get informed consent
must debreif |
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obtain answers to questions by forming a hypothesis and test these questions to DISPROVE them and its predictions
Dissemination of findings!! |
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| What is the scientific method and its steps? |
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pursuing knowledge via observation
ranges from uncontrolled, direct observations in natural settings to highly controlled lab based observations |
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provide an explanation of establishment data
provides an explanation for previously unexplained data
Produce new predictions
Therefore, advance science further
Factors, their interactions influence on observed phenomenon |
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| What makes a good theory? |
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| tentative statement about relations among factors involved in the observed phenomenon |
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EXPLAIN
PREDICT
CONTROL
DEVELOP a theory |
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| What are the goals of science? |
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| any event/condition which may change |
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| What are the different types of variables? |
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Consistency of measurement
Same score if phenomenon measured several times |
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| Degree to which an experiment, a procedure, or a measurement does/measures what it is supposed to measure. |
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Costs to Society
Misguided Complementary & Alternative Medicine
Superficial & Aggressive Religiosity
Paranormal Cherry Picking |
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| What are the dangers of pseudoscience? |
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| The science which is concerned with the investigation, by experimental means of events not explained by "natural law" |
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Extrasensory Perception
-Clairvoyance
-Telepathy
-Precognition |
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| What is ESP and its 3 subtypes? |
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Psychokinesis-the mental influence upon a physical state without the use of the motor organs
-Dynamic
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| What is PK and its 2 subtypes? |
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who developed atomic theory, believed that dreams were due to seepage into the mind of psychic particles (like atoms)
-the laughing philospher
-dreams |
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| told the story of one of the first instances of clarvoyance |
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| (who was not a philosopher) believed that "truthful" or clairvoyant dreams were due to the intervention of the gods |
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| rejected both these theories and believed that clairvoyant dreams were the result of some undiscovered and frequently untapped ability of the human mind (in dreams) |
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| Who was Prospero Lambertini? |
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| chief psychical researcher |
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| What was Prosper Lambertini's job? |
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| What book did Prospero Lambertini write? |
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| it was the first organized body of psychical research |
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| Why was De Canonizatione so special? |
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1.everyone and anyone can experience
2.Visions may include living and the dead
3.Sleep prophecies occur more often then awake
4.Symbolic form-predictions and dreams especially |
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| What major conclusions did Prospero Lambertini reach regarding paranormal phenomena? |
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13th Century Italian theologian, priest & philospher
-became a saint on his death bed
-Apparations (saw an apparition of his dead professor) |
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| Who was St. Thomas Aquinas and what happened to him? |
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-fasted
-Claims hsi consciousness traveled thousands of miles to the bedside of dying Pope Clement the XIV
--TRAVELING CLAIRVOYANCE |
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| Who was Alfonso di Liguoiri and what supposedly happened to him? |
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| Who wrote Summa Theologica? |
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-fasted
-SPONTANEOUS LEVATATION |
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| Who was St Joseph of Cupertino and what was he supposedly able to do? |
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| not really levitation, everyone who witnessed this was just having a divine halucination |
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| how did the church explain the spontaneous levitation of St Joseph? |
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MESMERism
-Animal Magnetism
-universal fluid
-tides/blockages
-manipulate
-outlawed |
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| Who was Franz Anton Mesmer? |
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| fluid in the body said to change or help a person, could be directed through magnets and hand gestures |
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| What was animal magnetism? |
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worked with mesmer
wrote a Case Study:Victor Rose
-believed trance is a psi-conductive state
-sleepwalker
-helped repopularize mesmerism |
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| Who was Marquis de Puyseger and what did he do? |
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medical clarvoyance
-community of Sensations |
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1840s england
-taste and smell over long distances |
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Power of Suggestion
-Not Supernatural |
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all based on volunteering system
-selection problem
-could have been psychic already |
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| What were some of the problems with early studies on Mesmerism? |
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| Brought psychic phenomenon out of the realm of religion and into that of science |
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| What is significant about mesmerism? |
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| single most important factor in the development of parapsychology |
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Mesmerism in Europe ---> led to---> Americas
-trans-speakers |
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| Where is spiritualism originate? |
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Communications with Spirits thru mediums or seances
-souls survive death
-belief in God "infinite Intelligence" |
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| What are the major tenants of Spiritualism? |
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Leah
Katherine (kate) *
Margaret (maggie)* |
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| What were the names of the three Fox sisters? |
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| What did the fox sisters name the knocking sound they were communicating with? |
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| Who was murdered in the Fox house? |
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Antagonistic to Spiritualism- goal was to expose fruads
-UPenn
-Accomplishment Henry Slade-Sollner
studied adult Maggie
-no explanation for the tappings |
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| What was the Seybert Commission and what was its major goal? |
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claimed Maggie fox wasn't lieng
-applauded, whitnessed, concluded, denounced
-also investigated D.D. Home |
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-dim darkly lit room
-rappings
spirit writing
-trance speaking
-clairvoyance
-luminous phenomena
-spiritual impersonation
-spirit music
-visible & tactile manifestation
-spirit intercourse |
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| What are the typical phenomena of a spiritualistic seance? |
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-fraud
-demons
-unknown ability of the human mind |
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| What are some of the interpretations of the phenomena that occurred during spiritualistic seances? |
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Saved spiiritualism-developed ESP abilities and ability to communicate with the dead
-never proved fraudulent but was criticized |
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| Who was D.D Home' and what was he supposedly able to do? |
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peraphin productions
spoon bender |
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Austrian medium
clairvoyant/telepathic |
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Israeli psychic
-spoons
-psychic photography |
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| contradict what we know about matter and energy as discovered through physics |
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| mysteries that need not violate the world of physics; however true paranormal explanation are NOT ruled out |
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| Borderline Gratuitous Claims |
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| offer a nonphysical explanation when there is no mystery to be explained |
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| Gratuitous Paranormal Claims |
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postmodernism
all truth is relative & personal
reality depends on what you believe not how the world is |
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