Psychic Healing
Psychic Healing studies, explanations and evaluation
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- Created on: 25-12-13 14:18
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2. What were the findings for Rosa et al's study?
- 58% of therapeutic touch practitioners answered incorrectly
- 44% of therapeutic touch practitioners answered correctly, which is lower than chance
- the results led to the acceptance of a null-hypothesis
- The results support the existence of psychic healing
3. What is psychic healing?
- Treating a person without conventional physical methods
- Reading a person's mind
- Being able to move things in your environment
- Being able to tell the future
4. Which are the following are negative evaluation points?
- Rosa et al's study, the placebo effect, lack of reliability
- Confirmation bias, wiseman and greening's study, Cha et al's study
- Wirth et al's study, Cha et al's study, lack of control
- Lack of reliability, Blackmore and Troscianko's study, Radin's study
5. What were the findings of cha et al's study?
- There were ethical issues
- the Christian strangers did not pray for the group and so, this affected the results
- The infertile women who were prayed for, were twice more likely to become pregnant than the control group
- The infertile women showed no improvement
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