Extrasensory Perception

Extrasensory Perception: Beliefs and Experiences of University of the West Indies Students.
Extrasensory perception is perception without a basis in sensory input (Baron, 2001). This more familiar term for ESP is the “Sixth Sense.” Parapsychologists are the individuals who study ESP and other paranormal events. The question of existence of ESP or the “sixth sense” has been raised by Bem and Honorton (1994) in terms of a hypothetical process known as psi (Baron, 2001). Psi is defined by Baron (2001) as Unusual processes of information or energy transfer that are currently unexplained in terms of known physical or biological mechanisms. ESP is generally divided into telepathy, i.e., extrasensory communication between two minds; clairvoyance, i.e., extrasensory perception at a distance, without the mediation of another mind; and precognition, which is ESP across time into the future. For years psychologists have doubted the existence of ESP because certain studies indicat...