Exam 14: Science and Superstition

An example of the autokinetic effect is:

Statements from the Bible about the natural world do not count as scientific evidence because:

The experiment performed by psychologists Singer and Benassi involving a conjurer who performed before a group of students tends to show that:

The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi claimed that some practitioners of transcendental meditation were able to:

One of the problems about superstitions relating to good luck is that:

The ability of people to walk on glowing wood coals without getting burned is explained by the fact that:

An example of a Gestalt is:

To a large extent, the purpose of all superstitious hypotheses is to satisfy:

An example of faked evidence is provided by the "feats" of:

Which of the following is a key feature of scientific experiments?

The failure of palm readers to identify the causal connection between the lines on a person's hands and his or her life indicates that the theory of palm reading is:

The apparent power of a mere sugar pill to cure numerous bodily ailments is called:

The effect by which a small stationary light surrounded by darkness will be seen to move is called the:

The puzzle-solving character of science is illustrated by the effort of scientists to:

Hallucinations that occur just as people are drifting off to sleep are called:

According to Imre Lakatos and Paul Thagard, science is distinguished from pseudoscience in that science is:

The mental pattern that results from solving a puzzle or riddle is called:

An example of the placebo effect is:

The process by which the brain fills in gaps in memory images is called:

Hallucinations that affect the vision of people in a large crowd are called: