Designing an ESP study using Zener Cards The purpose of this study is to outline an experiment that will correctly display if a person does or does not have extra-sensory perception. Our hypothesis is that people with a strong sense of ESP will accurately identify the Zener cards more than 20% of the time. The probability of guessing any card correctly is 20% so a person with ESP would have a higher probability of guessing correctly. Evidence for the existence of ESP has been found but this could just be a case of coincidence. There are many accounts of clairvoyance and telepathy but it has always been hard to test for these abilities. Joseph Banks Rhine created the method of using cards to test the accuracy of guessing but the scientific community did not expect this. There are many argument against ESP’s existence such as, it breaks the know laws of the universe, and for us to have a sixth sense we would need an organ that maps to that a. For this experiment there will be to groups, one where the participants would believe that they have ESP and the other who don’t believe they have ESP. For my experimental group I would only choose those that believe they have ESP and for the control group a random sampling to participate in a “guessing game”. There would be two advertisements sent out one looking for people that have ESP and another to test the brains method of guessing. Preliminary test and questions would be asked in the beginning to
designing an experiment, we have to design an experiment and we need to confirm the
While the senders were doing this, receiver participants completed a simple binary guessing task, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to monitor their brain activity. On each trial of the guessing task, the receivers sequentially viewed two stimuli, guessed which one was the stimulus being ‘‘sent’’ (i.e., the psi stimulus), and then saw the psi stimulus a second time. This paradigm allowed us simultaneously to test all three hypothesized mechanisms of psi: telepathy (i.e., ‘‘mind reading’’), clairvoyance (i.e., direct sensing of remote events), and precognition (i.e., knowing future events). The sender served as the potential telepathic source, the sender’s computer monitor served as the potential clairvoyance source, and the second presentation of the psi stimulus served as the potential precognition source.” (p. 183 p.
To define such a universally experienced phenomena as consciousness may seem on the most superficial level rather unnecessary. Yet a more scientific, and at times philosophical, investigation into the phenomena demands some sort of confirmed interpretation which supercedes any such common understanding. For our purposes the content of consciousness may be deemed those things of which one is aware and thus can report. Thinking, as well, and the higher-level mechanisms associated there in may also be components of this consciousness. While additionally an individuals' conception that the way in which she experiences the world comes from more than just the neuronal activity of her brain can be understood as a contribution
A common human being can assume that these psychic abilities are fake, but they are a working progress among skeptic individuals. Only lab research can prove that these abilities are
That our perception of the world is predominantly governed by the senses of sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell is not disputed. However, scientists and amateur academics alike have historically disagreed about the existence of any additional senses, with the most contentious debate surrounding the phenomenon generally referred to as ESP, or "psi." Despite the vast number of people who claim to have or to have witnessed psychic abilities, the corresponding research has found little that is empirically valid or significant to corroborate the wealth of more anecdotal evidence. To establish their validity, it would be necessary to show how they occur in the sensory system - how
A sixth sense is not real in my opinion. It is most, if not all of our senses working to give us that heads up. Like what we call a conscience Like hey, this is going to happen if it smells and feels like this or looks and tastes like this. Our senses do adapt to what is around us for example if you are in a dark room your pupils are going to dilate (become bigger), and when you go back into the light, they are going to contract (become smaller). It’s not just our vision, though it is with all of our senses. That’s why usually if a person is blind, one of their other senses are generally enhanced like
The first step is preparing a control condition. A control condition is a variable kept constant in an experiment that serves as a basis to compare data. This allows you to accurately
Start by shuffling the cards while concealing the quarter in Finger Palm as you say, “Physics is a crazy motherfucker!”
Much research has been conducted looking in to the question of whether or not ESP actually exists, with dream ESP often being focused on in research, where an individual attained information during their sleep which has not come through any of the five recognised senses. Many of the reported cases of ---- of ESP has been deen to take to take place whilst the individuals is in some form of an altered state of consciousness and as dreaming is the most easily accesible altered state of consciousness available to researchers many studies have focused on this.
Moreover, to support the quality of the gathered results the experiment was repeated and an additional data
This bar graph, is used to demonstrate the overall time of the three trials for the twenty participants. We calculated the average for each trial by adding the time up and then dividing by the average which is twenty. This demonstrated how more participants take more time to recognize a color than to read a word. During the first two trials the participants read the word at a quicker pace, than it recognizes color.
ESP and many more. This branch of psychology usually deal with experiences that lies beyond the range of the norm or beyond scientific explanation. 2. What are the ESP Categories? If you would be given the chance to have one.
Instead, this book brings with it the intention to shine a spotlight on why some people have or have not witnessed various psychic phenomena. It is not intended to be used as a tool for debate. Regardless of your believes on this topic, I hope you enjoy this book.
Almost a century ago, there was this pioneer researcher named J. B. Rhine. He was investigating ESP or so called Esper, and it is where someone can sense things, not physically, but mentally. He then got side tracked when a gambler came into his lab and told him that they could roll a pair of dice and the dice would land in their favor. Rhine then was inspired by the thought and began investigating and experimenting multiple types of Psychokinesis.
We use experimental chambers as our apparatuses. There is a camera in the chamber for in class observation. Front and back walls are made out of Perspex and the other walls are made out of sheet metal. They are 300 mm long. The floor (295 mm long and 250 mm wide) is made of iron bars. There is also a house light on the back wall. There are three keys (key 1, key2, key 3, the order is random for each pigeon) for response. They are plastic discs and are lit up with a blue light when the key is being recorded. They are 190 mm from the floor and 60 mm from each other. The diameter of the key is 25 mm. There is a magazine for the pigeons to eat grain and there is a hopper filled with grain behind the magazine. The height and length of the magazine are 50 mm and the width is 70 mm. It is 40 mm from the floor. In the room next door, there is a computer running Med-Pc IV. This controls all experimental events and records response