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Assignment
Take notes as the video plays. Use your notes or additional time spent watching the video again to answer the questions below.
More than likely, you will need to watch part of the video again. Thus, don't stress out if you do not get all of the answers while viewing in class.
1. Psychics claim to have ESP. What do the letters ESP stand for?
2. ESP is the supposed the ability to do what?
3. To what does clairvoyance refer?
4. Scientists have been testing the supernatural claims of psychics for how many years?
5. What is a "hot" reading?
6. What is a "cold" reading?
7. When a psychic is reading an audience they will do what's called "shotgunning." What is that?
8. What is a Barnum statement?
9. Give an example of a Barnum statement from the video.
10. A statement such as "You're a driven person, but you sometimes succumb to laziness" is an example of what type of a statement?
11. Why might a psychic guess that a name begins with the letter J or G?
12. Psychics who claim to talk to the dead are usually dealing with what kind of people?
13. When psychic Theresa Caputo gets a negative response from a woman about the number of kids she has (woman has two, Caputo said three), what does Caputo do and thus implies what?
14. Psychic practice is what kind of science?