Question

Gertrude Schmeidler named an effect in studies of this phenomenon the “sheep-goat effect.” Ray Hyman argued that statistical flaws ruined Charles Honorton’s attempts to use a kind of mild sensory deprivation called ganzfeld (“GAHNTS-fehld”) experiments to measure this phenomenon. Daryl Bem’s studies of this phenomenon helped spur social (-5[1])psychology’s replication crisis. J.B. Rhine co-created a deck of cards with a circle, a plus sign, (15[1])wavy lines, a star, and a square to test for this phenomenon, (15[1])although (*) “leakage” may have occurred in those experiments. The Zener (“ZEE-ner”) cards test this phenomenon, which is the most common form of psi (“sigh”) studied by parapsychologists. For 10 points, name this pseudoscientific (-5[1])phenomenon, (10[2])in which people (10[1])allegedly gain information (10[1])without using any of their physical abilities. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Extrasensory Perception [or ESP; accept sixth sense or cryptaesthesia; accept anomalous information transfer; accept second sight or precognition; accept remote viewing; accept telepathy or mind reading or reading minds; prompt on psi or parapsychology with “what is the more specific parapsychological phenomenon?”]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, Social Science>
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