Exam 14: Science and Superstition

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

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

One of the reasons for the existence of superstitious beliefs is that:

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

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

One consequence of Ockham's razor is that:

Scientific hypotheses must be framed narrowly enough to be:

One source of support for superstitious hypotheses is:

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

Superstitious claims are usually expressed in vague language. As a result:

One of the reasons astrology is not considered a science is that:

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:

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

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

Hypnagogic hallucinations may be the cause of:

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

An apparent benefit derived from superstitious beliefs is:

The effect by which people recognize images (such as faces or animals) in clouds or other media is called:

A cure that supposedly arises from a "medicine" or procedure having no therapeutic benefit is said to result from:

The claim that eating pickled parsley cured Mr. Smith's congestive heart failure is called: