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1. The claim that eating pickled parsley cured Mr. Smith’s congestive heart failure is called:
a. Supplementary evidence.
b. Transitory evidence.
c. Spurious evidence.
d. Conditional evidence.
e. Anecdotal evidence.
2. Which of the following is a key feature of scientific experiments?
a. Dependability.
b. Replicability.
c. Efficaciousness.
d. Directionality.
e. Stability.
3. One of the features of superstitious hypotheses is:
a. Vagueness.
b. Falsifiability.
c. Supernormality.
d. Confirmability.
e. Dubiosity.
4. Ockham’s razor is a principle that requires hypotheses to be:
a. Complex.
b. Functional.
c. Simple.
d. Empirical.
e. Rational.
5. To a large extent, the purpose of all superstitious hypotheses is to satisfy:
a. Criminal inclinations.
b. Innate curiosity.
c. Financial needs.
d. Emotional needs.
e. Irrational dispositions.
6. An apparent benefit derived from superstitious beliefs is:
a. The ability to levitate.
b. Psychokinesis.
c. The ability to channel.
d. Clairvoyance.
e. Relief of anxiety.
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7. A cure that supposedly arises from a “medicine” or procedure having no therapeutic benefit is said to result from:
a. The autokinetic effect.
b. The medicinal effect.
c. The placebo effect.
d. The transmutational effect.
e. The synthetic effect.
8. The mental pattern that results from solving a puzzle or riddle is called:
a. A gestalt.
b. An epistemic stamp.
c. A cognitive appliqué.
d. An eidetic residue.
e. A noetic profile.
9. The effect by which a small stationary light surrounded by darkness will be seen to move is called the:
a. Psychokinetic effect.
b. Spuriokinetic effect.
c. Psychotic effect.
d. Kinesthetic effect.
e. Autokinetic effect.
10. Hallucinations that affect the vision of people in a large crowd are called:
a. Popular delusions.
b. Collective hallucinations.
c. Galvanic hallucinations.
d. Amplified delusions.
e. Spiritual visions.
11. Uri Geller’s claims of having psychic power rested on:
a. Superstitious evidence.
b. Supernatural evidence.
c. Transcendental evidence.
d. Faked evidence.
e. Epiphenomenal evidence.
12. The ability of people to walk on glowing wood coals without getting burned is explained by the fact that:
a. Wood coals contain a relatively low quantity of heat.
b. Wood coals are extinguished by the moisture in people’s feet.
c. Neurolinguistic programming blocks the transmission of heat.
d. The temperature of wood coals is very low.
e. Wood coals form a crust that blocks the transmission of heat.
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13. According to Thomas Kuhn, one feature that distinguishes scientists from pseudo scientists is that scientists are:
a. Workaholics.
b. Equipped with laboratory facilities.
c. Puzzle solvers.
d. Theorizers.
e. Practitioners.
14. The claim that practitioners of transcendental meditation can levitate leads to:
a. An idiosyncratic problem.
b. An external consistency problem.
c. A coherence problem.
d. An adequacy problem.
e. A functional problem.
15. In regard to levitation, Maharishi International University’s International Center for Scientific Research has done
which of the following?
a. Published papers in scientific journals.
b. Compiled a list of meditators who can levitate.
c. Conducted experiments.
d. Nothing to speak of.
e. Read papers before scientific bodies.