PSYS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Parapsychology, Zener Cards, Cocktail Party

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Psychological Science
• Course: PSYS 100
• Professor: Forbey

Document Summary

Perceptual sets relationship between a stimulus and it"s context: grouping, contextual, effects, preconceptions, expectations. Selective attention process of focusing on one sensory channel and ignoring the others: filter theory of attention and the dichotic listening task. Listen to info coming into one ear and out the other: cocktail party effect. Perceiving events outside the typical sensory channels of seeing, hearing, touch: 41% of americans believe. 3 major types: precognition predicting events, telepathy reading minds, clairvoyance detecting hidden objects of people. Zener card studies subjects scored better than chance performance on precognition, telepathy, and clairvoyance but: not replicable, methodology flaws (see through cards) Ganzfield technique experimental setup to reduce background noise and increase sensitivity to esp: not replicable. Parapsychology terms for explaining away negative findings; experimenter effects, decline effect, psi missing. Cold reading: set of skills to persuade strangers. Failed psychic predictions: people forget these. Multiple end points: open ended predictions.