You must do both parts of this examination. Each part must be done in separate examination booklets. This examination is worth 40% of your final grade.

Answer 10 of the following 12 questions in essay style in separate examination booklets from those used for Part II. Each question is worth one mark. Questions marked with an asterisk are based on those submitted by students.

1. Name and explain two “Pathologies of Knowing and Learning” identified by Charles Tart.

2. How could a negative attributional style affect PMIRs?

3. *What is the sheep-goat effect?

4. What is meant by “cold reading?”

5. According to Stephen Schwartz, when remote viewing the USS Enterprise, what is it that percipients were particularly attracted to?

6. What is a pseudoskeptic?

7. *What is the Reverse Zeno’s Strategy?

8. Explain what is meant by “superposition” in the context of quantum theory. Give an example of superposition.

9. Describe pure consciousness.

10. What is meant by the “retroactive facilitation of recall?”

11. What is meant by a “qualified environment” in the context of meditation?

12. Briefly describe what happened to “the hero with 1000 mg (thorazine).”

Part II

Answer two of the following four questions in essay style in separate examination booklets from those used for Part I. Your answer must be comprehensive in nature, it must be based on the readings and class discussions, and can include relevant observations from your own experiences. Each question is worth 10 marks.

13. Choose one of the formal experiments discussed in any of the readings or in class that you feel gets at something important about the nature of consciousness. Describe the purpose, method, and results of the experiment. What is it that makes this experiment significant? What else could be done to advance the line of investigation to which this experiment belongs? (Your grade could depend upon the choice of experiment, in that a complicated experiment explained well could receive a higher grade than a straightforward experiment explained well, simply because there could be more details to report for a complicated experiment.)

14. Discuss acting “as if” as a strategy for changing oneself and the world. (Your grade will depend, in part, upon how much of the course material you can legitimately (albeit creatively) draw into your answer.)

15. What do authenticity, the FieldREG, self-directed neuroplasticity, retrocausation, and Franklin Wolff’s non-duality have to do with one another?

16. Make up a substantial question (which must end with a question mark) about the course material and then answer that question. Your question cannot be such that your answer substantially duplicates answers that you have written for any of the other questions on this examination. You will be graded for the quality of your question as well as your answer.