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| _____ can obscure phenomena that are really there, or lead us to believe in phenomena that are not. |
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| apparent evidence of its existence |
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| One of the most powerful determinants of people's dubious belief in ESP is simply the availability of _____ from both everyday life an the laboratory. |
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| The experience of, or response to, a target object, state, event or influence without sensory contact. |
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| Telepathy, Clairvoyance, Precognition, Psychokinesis (PK). |
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| _____ is generally credited with initiating the investigation of psi under laboratory conditions. |
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| Significantly fewer guesses than chance expectation |
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| initial impressive success that trails off and eventually disappears over trials. |
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| It seems clear that _____ faked his data. |
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| No single experiment, or no set of experiments conducted in one laboratory can ever stand out as _____. |
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| The net effect of the media's one-sided treatment is that the average person is _____ to encounter apparent support for the paranormal than any evidence that challenges its validity. |
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| Numerous surveys have asked people to explain the origin of their belief in the paranormal, and all of them point to importance of _______. |
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| Misconstrued Personal Experience |
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Mundane Psychosis
Everyday Coincidence
Everyday Premonition
Extraordinary Premonitions |
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| Given the _____ of our experience, numbers coincidental events are bound to happen in a lifetime. |
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| Although the probability of any one coincidence is indeed quite low, the probability of the _____ of all such coincidental events can be quite high. |
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| We are sampling from ______, and this masks the repetitive element of the sampling process. |
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| A coincidence between a person's thoughts and events in the outside world. |
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| Positive results are obtained by sympathetic investigators and inhibited by skeptics. |
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