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Introduction to Anomalistic Psychology: Exploring Extraordinary Phenomena

This PowerPoint presentation provides an introduction to the field of anomalistic psychology, which focuses on the study of extraordinary phenomena, including paranormal experiences. It covers topics such as paranormal beliefs, parapsychology, and various paranormal phenomena.

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Introduction to Anomalistic Psychology: Exploring Extraordinary Phenomena

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  1. Introduction to Anomalistic Psychology Go through this powerpoint and follow all the instructions.

  2. What is anomalistic psychology? Anomalistic psychology is the study of extraordinary phenomena including (but not restricted to) those which are often labelled "paranormal“ It is directed towards understanding bizarre experiences that many people have without necessarily assuming that there is anything paranormal involved It entails attempting to explain paranormal and related beliefs and ostensibly paranormal experiences in terms of known psychological and physical factors.

  3. Hints for things anomalistic psychologists may study • Uri Geller, strange beliefs, predictions people make...

  4. Parapsychology Parapsychology is slightly different to anomalistic psychology; it is the scientific investigation of the "paranormal" – phenomena that cannot be explained in terms of currently accepted scientific theories. Parapsychologists also tend to try to find evidence supporting the paranormal, whereas anomalistic psychologists are more sceptical. Using these descriptions of anomalistic psychology and parapsychology, make notes or revision aids on them.

  5. Paranormal belief scale • Follow this link http://www.psych205.com/a2-resources.html. Scroll down to anomalistic psychology and have a go at the paranormal belief scale questionnaire. • How to score this is on the next slide

  6. Scoring the revised paranormal belief scale Reverse score Item 23. This means 1=7, 2=6, 3=5, 4=4 Traditional Religious Belief = Mean of Items (1, 8, 15, 22); Psi (paranormal processes such as extra sensory perception and psycho-kenesis) = Mean of Items (2, 9, 16, 23); Witchcraft = Mean of Items (3, 10, 17, 24); Superstition = Mean of Items (4, 11, 18); Spiritualism = Mean of Items (5, 12, 19, 25) Extraordinary Life Forms = Mean of Items (6, 13, 20) Precognition = Mean of Items (7, 14, 21, 26).

  7. Anomalistic Psychology • What is psychic healing? • What is ESP? • What is telepathy? • What is clairvoyance? • What is precognition? • What are psychokinesis and telekinesis? • What is pseudoscience? Terms & Definitions - Click here to watch video and write down definitions for the key terms opposite

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