Is There Extrasensory Perception?
chance-level, interpreted, reconstructed
Analysis of psychic visions and premonitions reveal _______ accuracy. Nevertheless, some people continue to believe in their accuracy because vague predictions often are later __________ to mach event that have already occurred. In addition, people are more likely to recall or __________ dreams that seem to have come true.
reproducible
Critics point out that a major difficulty for parapsychology is that ESP phenomena are not consistently ________.
extrasensory perception
Perception outside the range of normal sensation is called ___________
parapsychologists
Psychologist who study ESP are called ___________.
beat, failed to replace results
Researchers who tried to reduce external distraction between a sender and receiver in an ESP experiment reported performance levels that _________ chance levels. Follow-up studies ____________.
telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, chance-level
The form of ESP in which people claim to be capable of reading others' minds is called _______. A person who senses that a friend is in danger might claim to have the ESP ability of __________. An ability to see into the future is called _________. a person who claims to be able to levitate and move objects is claiming the power of ___________.