Monday, 2 April 2012

Exceptional Experiences

The final section of the anomalistic specification is:

"Psychological research into and explanations for psychic healing, near death and out of body experiences, and psychic mediumship."

'Explanations for...' can of course include the possibility that these things are real, but it seems more likely (to most psychologists) that they are instead powerfully real 'experiences' which have rational, scientific explanations.

There aren't many different questions that can be asked on these, but you could be required to focus either on 'explanations for' or 'research into' these experiences. You therefore need one or two explanations in reasonable depth, and at least one, preferably two studies for each that you can describe and evaluate. Of course, if the question is on explanations, studies can form part of the evaluation.
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