Paranormal Activities

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RESEARCH IN LEVEL OF BELIEF IN PARANORMAL ACTIVITYAND REASON BEHIND THEIR BELIEF AMONG UTM STUDENTS

FACULTY OF MECHANICALENGINEERING


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According to parapsychologists, the term paranormal describes,any phenomenon ha !n one o" mo"e "e#pe$# e%$eehe '!m!# o( )ha !# &eeme& phy#!$a''y po##!*'e a$$o"&!n+o $,""en #$!en!-$ a##,mp!on#. Th!# !n$',&e# e%"a/#en#o"y pe"$ep!on0 p#y$ho 1!ne#!#0 an& #,"!a' o($on#$!o,#ne## a(e" &eah. Parapsychologists are alsoinvolving qualitative and quantitative methodologies to provetheir presence. However, by conventional theory of scienceparanormal phenomenon is still beyond and unexplained.

tories relating to paranormal phenomena are found in popularculture and fol!lore, but the scienti"c community, contendsthat scienti"c evidence does not support paranormal beliefs.Paranormal phenomena are those, which, if genuine, wouldviolate basic limiting principles ofscience and paranormal belief is belief in paranormalphenomena.

IN TRO D U CTIO N


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IN TRO D U CTIO N

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STATEM EN T O F

PROBLEMApproaching the paranormal from a research perspective is oftendi%cult because of the lac! of acceptance of the physical reality ofmost of the supposed phenomena. #y de"nition, the paranormaldoes not conform to conventional expectations of the natural.

#efore this, there is no certain research for us to refer regardingthe belief in paranormal activity among university students. &hisis maybe due to the notion that paranormal activity is not animportant matter to research. 'omparing the accepted wisdomwith the western world, which prioriti(es in matters as such, weshould be more focusing on matters that involve high level of

thoughts and cognitive thin!ing.$t is scienti"cally proven that a person who believes in suchmatter thin! di)erently than others who doesn*t. &herefore, ourresearch intends to "nd the level of beliefs in the paranormalactivity and the reason behind it among +& studentsregardless of whether the phenomena are considered to

ob-ectively exist.


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&o obtain some information about thestudying techniques that is applied by

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/e are !een conducting the research in order to "nd out the mainreason on how a person is exposed to this matter and how depththis sub-ect is a)ecting his or her mind. &hus, we hope that thisresearch will be a benchmar! for other researchers who will

conduct more research regarding this matter among universitystudents.


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OBJECTIVE OF STUDY

&o determine the learning techniques adoptedby 0ean*s ist students.

&o identify the right learning attitude among1PP students.

&o "nd appropriate solution andrecommendation for students who obtained'2PA below than 3.4 to improve their grades.


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RESEARCH QUESTIONS


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SCOPE OF THE RESEARCH

/e decided to conduct this research on respondentsamong +& students. $t involved the participation of 35students in our research on student*s perception onparanormal activity.


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LITERATU REREVIEW

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LITERATU REREVIEW

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LITERATURE REVIEW

LEVEL OF BELIEF

$rwin, H. 7. 89::5; stated in his boo!Fantasy Pronenessand Paranormal Beliefs that the minds of human being isconquered by the occurrence of the notion that is thoughtrepetitively.

uenced by cultural factors, suchas family, peer group processes, dissemination of paranormalconcepts in the media and formal persuasion by socialinstitutions, e.g.


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2allup, 2. 7r., 89::?;,Public Opinion 199 stated thatpeople*s belief in fortune and miracle is in>uenced by theircharacteristics.

&here are de"nite di)erence in the way the intellectualthin!s and converse. &hey tend to imagine further than thelogical solution, and they "nd solace in it.

1rancis, . 7. 89::3;. Personality and religion amongcollege students in the +.@. Personality and !ndi"idual

#i$erences, 34, 9:BCC.


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LITERATURE REVIEWREASON TO BELIEVE

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/e are taught about angels, witches, devils, spirits,monsters, gods, etc. virtually in the cradle. ince small,children seems to grow up with fantasies and imaginary. Asthey begin to mature, their fantasies seems to be another

lie./e learn about 2od and anta 'laus simultaneouslyF

only later are we told that anta 'laus is -ust a fairy taleand 2od is real.

/ul), 0. . 89::?;. Psychology of religionGclassic and contemporary views. ew Eor!G/iley.


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RESEARCHM ETH O D O LO GY

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FIN D IN G S

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1igure J and 4 explains about the relationshipbetween genders and their belief inparanormal activity.

&he reason behind this would be becausegirls are !nown to be more sensitive thanmale. #esides, male are seen as logical andrational. &hey would rather believe in what is

proven than -ust intuition. $t can be seen that, about half the male

believe in paranormal activity while anotherhalf do not but when referred to that offemale, only a small percentage do notbelieve in paranormal activity. a-oritybelieve in paranormal activity. &his showsthat level of belief is higher among femalethan male.

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1rom the "gure = and "gure : we can see that there are reasonsfor the students to believe and not to believe. Although it is

obvious that there are no scienti"c explanation for the studentsto believe but they still believe to paranormal activity due tocertain situations.

According to $&H,.08C553;.1rom the'ournal ofparapsychology DEou don*t actually need to see and feel a ghostto believe in it. Eou -ust need to be scared enough .* 1rom the

"gure = we can see that there are J reasons why studentsbelieve in paranormal activity. &he reasons are based on theinformation that they "nd from movies and stories that they read.'ertain family also inherits certain stories about this paranormalactivity. 1inally there are also students who had dreams on ghostwhich eventually lead them to believe on ghost.

Kn the other hand some students have their own reason whythey don*t believe in ghost. ost of them don*t agree about thefact the paranormal activity exist because they found it very hardto be explained in any condition. #esides that no properscienti"cally approved evidence also lead them to disagree withthe fact the ghost exist.


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How religion of the respondents related to their believe thatreligion and paranormal activity coB relatesN

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$t shown from the "gures 95 and 99 above that all

students who have religion believe that religion andparanormal activity are related. Kf the 35 respondents,none of them are free thin!ers i.e. all of them do belongto a religion. All 35 of them too believe that religionand paranormal activity are related to one another.

ome religion as in $slam believe in Dalambar(a!h*. #uddhism and Hinduism believe in life afterdeath and reincarnation. A persons religious view andhow pious they are will de"nitely a)ect their level ofbelief in paranormal activities.

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CONCLUSION

uence the paranormal beliefamong students.

Kverview B &his research investigated the level of belief in

paranormal activities among the +& students. Primary datawere collected by randomly distributing questionnaires to 35students.


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CONCLUSION

1rom the research we found that9. ost of the students in +& believe in the

paranormal phenomena.

C. ost of them who believes in paranormal activity isbecause of exposure from the movies

3. 6eligion and paranormal activity coBrelates

.imitations of study. ac! of research instruments.

ac! of respondents.


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RECOMMENDATIONS

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FUTURE RESEARCH

ince this study had only focused on +& students, it isrecommended that future studies be carried out on studentfor other universities to see whether there are similaritiesin the "ndings. 1urthermore, future research could explorethe other cause of the reason this paranormal activitiesand the factor that ma!e the student thought about it.

eanwhile, the future research also can involved on otheruniversities about the level of belief among the studentand the reason behind the result of it. Also, the researchneed to "nd how to prevent the growing of belief in

paranormal activities.

astly, the paranormal belief should be decrease as it notgiven any bene"t to -ust belief in it.


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