A02 PSYCHIC HEALING and psychic mediumship Flashcards
What are the 2 sections
Explanations
Research studies
What are the 2 sections for explanations
Sheep goat effect
Lack of support for the placebo effect
Talk about the sheep goat effect
Belief in psychic healing may explain why it succeeds. Belief creates oso time expectations, acting like a placebo
Who tested sheep gat effect
Lyvers
What did lyvers do and find
20 volunteers suffering from chronic back pain
Put them into 2 groups treatment and non treatment
Told all that psychic was focusing on them even though only focused on treatment group
Found a p so it be correlation between belief in psychic healing and final pain score
What are the 3 sections in research studies
Therapeutic touch
Replication
Wirths research
Talk about therapeutic touch
Te supporters criticised rosas research cz it was designed by a 9 year old girl but still it was published by reputable peer review we’d journal of the American medical association
To supporters also claimed it invalid cz the experiment or wasn’t I’ll which effects their aura
Who replicated rosa study
Who supported the replication
Long
Glickman and Gracely
What did long do and find
Replicated rosas study but used ordinary p p instead of to practitioners
Found results better than chance
Claims this is cz they detected body heat from experimenters hand
What did Glickman and Gracely do and find
Same study except eliminated body heat
Results were at the chance level supporting the heat explanation
Talk about problems with Wirths research
Wirth couldn’t replicate his study on wound healing
Those who wanted to contact him about it couldn’t get hold of him
He was convicted of criminal fraud
Cha accused of plagiarism in another journal
So not reliable
