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1
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What are psychic mediums

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Claim to be able to communicate with people in the afterlife or spirit world

2
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What are the 3 explanations for psychic mediumship

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Sensitivity for cues
The barnum effect
Fraud

3
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Talk a about sensitivity to cues

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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

4
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Talk about the barnum effect

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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

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Talk about fraud

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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

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What are the 2 sections for the research studies

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Tv test

Rock and beischel

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Talk about tv test in terms of research studies

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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

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Who tested tv test

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Schwartz

9
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Talk about rock and beischels study

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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