PREFERENTIAL EFFECT

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N., Pam M.S.
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with regard to parapsychology experiments, the discovery that an involved party's calls or guesses are more correct for one group of targets in an experiment than another one.

PREFERENTIAL EFFECT: "The preferential effect skewed the results, making them invalid."

Related Psychology Terms

  1. POSITION EFFECT
  2. LANGUAGE ESP
  3. ESP FORCED-CHOICE TEST
  4. TRIAL
  5. POSTCOGNITION
  6. PRECOGNITION
  7. ZENER CARDS
  8. TO-BE-REMEMBERED ITEMS (TBR ITEMS)
  9. TREATMENT LEVEL
  10. CORRECT REJECTION
Cite this page: N., Pam M.S., "PREFERENTIAL EFFECT," in PsychologyDictionary.org, April 7, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/preferential-effect/ (accessed April 20, 2021).
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