What Is Parapsychology?

Looking at the history of human research experiments necessitates investigation into the background; why is it not sufficient to simply to undertake an experiment merely to broaden scientific study and understanding? Are not the psychologists and scientists ethical and professional? The answer is quite simply, not always. While many psychologists may have started their experiments with the best of intentions, there were a number that merely seized opportunities that were in their grasp. Hence, there came the need for the Belmont Report and the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Code of Ethics in direct response to testing on human subjects.

At times the other participant would plead for the experiment to stop. The effect the administrator had on each subject was tremendous. Among many others, some factors that affected the participant’s obedience included the appearance of the instructor, directions provided, and the setting of the experiment at a prestigious university. The instructor made the participants believe that they were obligated to continue administering shocks through his words, appearance and tone of voice.

Psychological research describes investigations psychologists undertake in order to review and analyse a specific hypothesis, (a theory about the relationship between defined variables). Research allows theories to be confirmed, amended or rejected and often leads to further research as requirements evolve. Psychological research can take many forms, from laboratory based experiments to non-invasive viewing of subjects in their own environment. This research can take place using human or non-human subjects and the analysed results applied to human behaviour or experience within many disciplines including, education, legal or occupational.

The documentary, “Secrets of the Psychics”, was an interesting experiment that seemed to expose the powers people claim they have.

There also will be an agreement where if the subject feels uncomfortable with the experiment he or she is free to stop and leave. If I was to conduct this experiment then my hypothesis would be if that a person can read 15 cards straight in a row consecutively then the person ESP abilities. If the person cannot then he or she does not have ESP abilities. In this experiment the cards would be the independent variable and the dependent variable will be the person's ability to read the cards. An independent variable is the variable that is change or controls in a scientific experiment in order to see the effects of being tested for the dependent variable; which, the dependent variable is the variable being tested and measured inside experiment. In order to make this experiment more experimental than correlational research, scientists would isolate and manipulate only the independent variable and observe its effect on the dependent variable in order to establish a cause and

* Experiment - is a methodical procedure carried out with the goal of verifying, falsifying, or establishing the validity of a hypothesis. Experiments vary greatly in their goal and scale, but always rely on repeatable procedure and logical analysis of the results.

Having random students being put to the test to see how far they will go just because someone is telling them to. Stanly went to an extreme psychological level, having his subjects administer seemingly harmful shocks of electricity to strangers. Hearing of the experiment the natural reaction is to think “how could someone do that to another person, thinking they are being harmed.” However you never know how you will react until you are in that situation.

The test subjects failed to think critically and even act morally in the face of authority. The teachers often referred to the experimenter to continue when they knew the learner was in pain. Even after the learner had gone silent the test subjects continued. The test subject didn’t know if they were alive in the room or not and the majority continued regardlessly.

They are many theories in psychology that can be used to “understand” behaviour, two theories I am going to look at are; Psychodynamic approach and the humanistic approach. I will discuss these 2 psychological theories of development and explain how it accounts for the psychological development, health and behaviour of the individual.

Parapsychology can also be referred to as psychical research. The definition of parapsychology is the scientific study of paranormal phenomena and experiences. A paranormal phenomenon is a claim that a real anomalous effect is occurring. There may or may not be a real anomalous effect, but the individual has interpreted their experience as a paranormal one defines what a paranormal experience is. Unfortunately the importance of parapsychology has not been widely recognized. A popular reason on why parapsychology has been ignored is that it gives pseudo-scientific support to religion. Many scientists and philosophers have ignored and treated it the subject with contempt. Another reason that parapsychology has been so

can be explained in terms of Psychology. That makes me believe that the study is not easy at all.

One might think that this experiment will stimulate the new research in the area of human obedience, but this did not occur. Despite the difficulties and the courage of Burger to conduct a partial replication of the original study, it did not produce any different outcomes and did not spark any new ideas in psychology (Burger, 2009). Instead, the researcher had to deal with an enormous amount of different commentaries and controversy. My main rationale for disapproving the Burger’s study is ethical characteristics of the Milgram paradigm. More specifically, now we have the Ethical Rules of the APA, which tell us that researchers should honor rights of participants to privacy, confidentiality and the right to withdraw the experiment. However, Milgram’s paradigm clearly challenges these fundamental rights and creates even more ethical dilemmas. Another rationale that I can include is the infliction of increasing pain on an unwilling participant, a characteristic that is unacceptable in modern psychological studies. Therefore, I would disapprove such experiment, because of ethical non-compliance and little contribution to the field. As for me, I view following ethical practices in my dissertation project work as a crucial element for success. It will allow me to produce reliable, meaningful and relevant scholarly data that would not be a subject to ethical

In my opinion, the psychodynamic theory makes most sense because it gives the background of sexual drive as far as the id, ego, and superego. Freud came up with a theory which explained the desire to want to do something and having balance. With this theory, most child molesters use their id and not their ego. They think about their wants and needs and not what is morally right. Also, cognitive distortion makes sense too because it breaks down the thoughts of a child molester. According to the research, molesters think if a person did not resist, then they wanted it and a lot of sexual offenders think like that by taking it as consent sex when it is not. For example, if a child just lays there and do not say stop they think the child must want

In the profession of Psychology, watching people, animals, possessions in an environment are called observation. Individuals who work in Psychology use three different methods to observe people called controlled, natural, and participant observation. (McLeod, 2015) In my opinion, controlled observation is the most accurate mothed to use when studying a subject, because professionals can control and account for different variables. In the following paragraphs, I will describe the behavior I wished to observe in my chosen laboratory, the results that I obtained, and I will have provided a detailed explanation of my observation method used.

Millions of Americans express a belief in extrasensory perception, or ESP, they believe that certain people have psychic abilities. Movies like “The sixth sense” , and commercials for telephone psychics add to the common perception. That psychic abilities are real. Newspapers and television news show are frequently too ready to provide a forum for self-proclaimed psychic. And too quick to dismiss the skeptical viewpoint—if the writers even bother to find out what skeptics believe. People who believe in ESP claim that skeptics are curmudgeons.Who automatically reject any claim about paranormal abilities, no matter how compelling the evidence. The truth is that no psychic has ever been able to demonstrate his or her abilities under controlled