A01 psychic healing and PSYCHIC MEDIUMSHIP Flashcards
What are psychic mediums
Claim to be able to communicate with people in the afterlife or spirit world
What are the 3 explanations for psychic mediumship
Sensitivity for cues
The barnum effect
Fraud
Talk a about sensitivity to cues
There are many clubs that van help help a talented medium produce accurate info
They can pick up info from the sitters tone of voice and the sitters replies to previous statements
Called a cold reader
Talk about the barnum effect
A cold reader can make general statements to which the responses cab be used later in the conversation to convince the listener of the psychic abilities
The willingness of sitters to elaborate on limited info helps the medium appear to have special powers
Talk about fraud
Topic is a big business
A medium might hire an accomplice to visit a regular sitter
A cómplice may ask ti go to toilet ans steals sonething then medium asks listener if the lost something and tell them where it can be found
What are the 2 sections for the research studies
Tv test
Rock and beischel
Talk about tv test in terms of research studies
Tested 5 mediums
2 women were sitters
Bith sitters were unknown to the mediums
Mediums couldn’t see sitters and sitters could only answer with a yes or a no
Accuracy of mediums at 83 and 77 %
Did same study but with undergrads
3% were rated as accurate
Suggests mediums performance was well above chance with the original sitters
Who tested tv test
Schwartz
Talk about rock and beischels study
Tested the belief that mediums can report specific and accurate info about deceased persons without cues
Pps in 2 conditions
6 mediums spoke on the phone to a sitter who was an experimenter
They weren’t given any info about the sitter ir the sitters loved ones except the names
1st condition
Loved one was deceased
2nd
Loved one was living
The medium was blind to the conditions yet sig differences in the info retrieve were found between the 2 conditions
