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Chapter 2 - Psychics and Scientists 2.1 According to the article Psychics and Scientists, in the second section of the study, the participants were

asked to identify true statements from a list of both true and untrue statements about a crime. What did the researchers find? (a) the psychics did much better than the non-psychics (b) both groups did about the same (c) neither group picked even one true statement (d) both groups were able to pick all of the correct items

ANSWER: B

2.2 According to the article Psychics and Scientists the participants’ statements about the crime objects revealed

fairly high accuracy. What did the researchers conclude? (a) all of the participants had strong psychic ability (b) the participants must have read about the crimes in the newspaper (c) the objects gave away a great deal of information (d) all of the above

ANSWER: C

2.3 According to the article Psychics and Scientists, the ability to know who is calling before you answer the phone is

best explained by (a) clairvoyance (b) coincidence (c) telepathy (d) precognition

ANSWER: B 2.4 According to the article Psychics and Scientists, coincidences are likely to happen when dealing with (a) psychic

powers (b) relatives and friends (c) high frequency events (d) the unknown world of the mind

ANSWER: C 2.5 According to the article Psychics and Scientists, psychic Jeanne Dixon correctly predicted (a) that John F. Kennedy

would be assassinated (b) that John F. Kennedy would die in his second term as president (c) her own death (d) none of the foregoing [a, b, or c] were accurately predicted by her

ANSWER: D

2.6 According to the article Psychics and Scientists, Psi is another word for (a) the mind (b) the unconscious,

particularly the deep unconscious (c) the ideal self (d) parapsychological phenomena

ANSWER: D 2.7 According to the article Psychics and Scientists, magician James Randi (a) claims to be able to see the future (b)

owns a number of psychic telephone services (c) killed himself after he was exposed as a psychic fraud on national television (d) offers a reward for a demonstration of psychic phenomena

ANSWER: D

2.8 According to the article Psychics and Scientists, a survey of attitudes of police departments toward psychics showed

that psychics (a) often solve crimes (b) are more accurate when crimes involve women (c) only solve about half the crimes they work on (d) give no better information than the general public

ANSWER: D

2.9 In the research of Wiseman, et al., which is the main study reported in the article Psychics and Scientists, the

participants were psychics and (a) scientists (b) soldiers (c) home makers (d) students

ANSWER: D

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2.10 In the research of Wiseman, et al., which is the main study reported in the article Psychics and Scientists, the research design was (a) an experiment (b) a quasi-experiment (c) a longitudinal study (d) a survey

ANSWER: B

2.11 In the research of Wiseman, et al., which is the main study reported in the article Psychics and Scientists, participants

were presented with (a) objects from real crimes (b) printed descriptions of crimes (c) pictures of real criminals (d) all of the foregoing [a, b, and c] are correct

ANSWER: A

2.12 In the research of Wiseman, et al., which is the main study reported in the article Psychics and Scientists, data were

collected by asking participants to (a) point out the criminal in a line-up (b) recognize short written descriptions associated with real crimes (c) take the experimenters to places where real

crimes happened (d) sort through piles of objects, deciding which had been associated with real crimes and which had not

ANSWER: B

2.10 In the research of Wiseman, et al., which is the main study reported in the article Psychics and Scientists, data were

collected by asking participants to (a) say anything that came into their heads (b) write an essay about a crime (c) act out a crime, showing exactly how it happened (d) all of the foregoing [a, b, and c] are correct

ANSWER: A

2.11 In the research of Wiseman, et al., which is the main study reported in the article Psychics and Scientists, the findings

for accurate recognition of printed descriptors about crimes were that (a) both psychics and non-psychics were very accurate (b) neither psychics or non-psychics were very accurate (c)

psychics were significantly more accurate than non-psychics (d) non-psychics were significantly more accurate than psychics

ANSWER: B

2.12 In the research of Wiseman, et al., which is the main study reported in the article Psychics and Scientists, the findings

for accurate recognition of oral free responses about crimes were that (a) both psychics and non-psychics were quite accurate (b) neither psychics or non-psychics were very accurate (c)

psychics were significantly more accurate than non-psychics (d) non-psychics were significantly more accurate than psychics

ANSWER: A

2.13 In the research of Wiseman, et al., which is the main study reported in the article Psychics and Scientists, the free oral

responses that the psychics made while they were considering the crimes can be best described as (a) surprisingly detailed (b) obvious, given the materials they were given

(c) almost completely inaccurate (d) a psychic miracle

ANSWER: B 2.14 In the research of Wiseman, et al., which is the main study reported in the article Psychics and Scientists, the free oral

responses that the psychics made while they were considering the crimes contained about how much information which would have helped police in the solution of the crimes (a) none of their information would have been any help (b) about 33% of their information would have helped (c) about 66% of their information would have helped (d) almost all of the information they supplied would have been some help

ANSWER: A

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2.15 In the research of Wiseman, et al., which is the main study reported in the article Psychics and Scientists, the day of the study, how did the participants feel about their performance? (a) psychics and non-psychics both thought they had done well (b) psychics and non-psychics both thought they had done poorly (c) only non-psychics thought they had done well (d) only psychics thought they had done well

ANSWER: D

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