Question 1

Critics of modern ESP research argue that subjects who temporarily show ESP have received credit for a(n)__________.

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Question 2

If Danella believes that she can communicate with the spirits of the dead, she believes that she has the purported ability called __________.

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Question 3

You are watching as a participant attempts to control the roll of the dice with his mind.This purported ability involving "mind over matter" is called __________.

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Question 4

One study of eyewitness cases found that the percentage of time that a wrong person was chosen from police lineups was __________ percent.

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Question 5

Asking questions, seeking clarifications, and finding alternate channels of information are ways that one can actively look for additional evidence to check the accuracy of one's perceptions.This process is known as __________.

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Question 6

Taking a fresh look and paying attention to sensations we have previously ignored is known as __________.

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Question 7

If two objects make images of the same size, the more distant object must be larger.This is known formally asthe __________.

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Question 8

Describe sensory localization, and explain how this process may someday make it possible to artificially restore sight, hearing, or others senses.

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Question 9

Many of J.B.Rhine's ESP experiments made use of a deck of 25 cards, each bearing one of five symbols.These cards are known as __________ cards.

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Question 10

Events that seem to defy accepted scientific laws are known as __________.

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Question 11

Discuss the process of sensory analysis, and explain how it is both innate and influenced by early experiences by describing the studies conducted by Blakemore and Cooper.

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Question 12

If a"psychic" begins a "reading" by making general statements about a person and then plays "hot and cold" by attending to the person's facial expressions, body language, or tone of voice in order to continue or drop a line of thought, the psychic is using a set of techniques known as __________.

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Question 13

Eyewitnesses sometimes identify as a culprit someone they have seen in another situation or context, which is referred to as __________.

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Question 14

Describe the "seat-of-the-pants phenomenon," "the cocktail party effect," and inattentional blindness, and explain how they are all related to the "bottleneck" of selective attention.

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Question 15

Gerald is not against parapsychology research, but he remains unconvinced by the evidence to date.Regarding ESP, Gerald would be considered a(n)__________.

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Question 16

Humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow believed that some people perceive themselves and others with unusual accuracy.He characterized these people as especially alive, open, aware, and mentally healthy and found that their perceptual styles were marked by a lack of self-consciousness; freedom from selecting, criticizing, or evaluating; a general "surrender" to experience; and an immersion in the __________.

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Question 17

Describe the four vision problems of hyperopia, myopia, astigmatism, and presbyopia, including their causes and treatments.

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Question 18

Modern parapsychologists are now well aware of the need to use an experimental arrangement in which the participants and the experimenters who have direct contact with the participants are unaware of whether the participants are in the experimental or control group.This experimental arrangement is known as a(n)__________ experiment.

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Question 19

The purported ability to predict future events is called __________.

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Question 20

An occurrence during testing that ESP researchers regard as evidence that parapsychological skills are very fragile is the __________ effect.

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Quiz 4: Sensation and Perception.