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the Nature of Abilities Stephen E Braude Emeritus Professor of Philosophy University of Maryland Baltimore County Why focus on abilities My research into hypnosis and multiple personality dissociative identity disorder. ABSTRACT This paper provides an in-depth discussion of research of anomalous mental phenomena (AMP) in the former Soviet Union. The authors spent approximately two months in Russia during 1992 and 1 58 IOVANNI – This paper examines the implications of parapsychological counseling in psychiatric practice. The author reviews the major clinical and historical issues of the relationship between 308 HONORTON, c. (1987). Precognition and real-time ESP performance in a com "Most sciences try to explain observable phenomena. 
Parapsychologists try to observe unexplainable phenomena.”. Parapsychology. It seeks to investigate the existence and causes of psychic 
abilities, near-death experiences, and life after death using the 
scientific method.. Extrasensory Perception . ESP: What is it?. Information not gained through the recognized physical senses but perceived by the mind.. Term coined to J.B. Rhine (1985-1980). Father of Parapsychology. Botanist who became a psychologist. Personal Psychology 20. What is parapsychology?. The scientific and scholarly study of unusual events associated with the human experience. These experiences are difficult to explain within current scientific models. Dick Bierman. University of Amsterdam. d.j.bierman@uniamsterdam.nl. 27 . april. 2012, Alumni , Universiteit van Amsterdam. The Phenomena. observations. Telepathy. E.g. phone-telepathy. Clairvoyance. Lesson 1. Answers to questions 1 & 2. Question 1: . Directional . (one-tailed is . acceptable). Question 2:. 1 . mark for correctly stating that the result is . significant.. 2 . further marks for an explanation: . . Lesson 1. What is meant by pseudoscience?. Name the characteristics of pseudoscience?. Specialist terminology . No progress in the accumulation of knowledge. Evidence based on anecdotal evidence. Proposes unfalsifiable hypotheses. . Lesson 1. Do you have any paranormal beliefs?. Are you a believer or a sceptic?. Find out, using the ‘Paranormal Beliefs Questionnaire’. Recap of Unit 4 topics. Section A: . Depression . (Total = 24 marks. Essay – same as Unit 3). Presented By: Eric Moore. History of the Paranormal. Paranormal – A general term that designates experiences that lie outside “. the range of normal experience or scientific explanation. ” or that indicates phenomena understood to be outside of sciences ability to explain or measure.. Dick Bierman. University of Amsterdam. d.j.bierman@uniamsterdam.nl. 17 . april. 2012, . Brein. & . Cognitie. , . Universiteit. van Amsterdam. The Phenomena. Telepathy. E.g. phone-telepathy. Clairvoyance. Period 5.  . Parapsychology. . is . the study of unexplained mental phenomena..  .  .  . Studied in over 30 countries (United Kingdom). Funded by donations. Society of Physical Research (1882). Why Did I .