Divination and Related Concepts

These flashcards cover key concepts in divination and its related fields, providing fill-in-the-blank questions based on the lecture content.

In Odes I.11, the message conveyed is __, urging acceptance of life's uncertainty.

Carpe Diem

The poem 'Fire and Ice' suggests that __ can lead to the destruction of the world.

unchecked human desires

In 'Fire and Ice', fire symbolizes __, while ice represents hatred.

desire and passion

The concept of __ refers to methods of gaining knowledge about the future through supernatural means.

Divination

__ are interpretations that provide answers to specific questions in divination.

Oracles

The __ technique involves interpreting signs from the natural world to predict events.

natural divination

Oracle Bones in ancient China were used for __, involving questions inscribed on the bones.

pyro-osteomancy

Haruspicy, practiced in ancient Rome, involves interpreting signs from the __ of a sacrificed animal.

organs

__ is the practice of interpreting dreams for insights about the future.

Oneiromancy

In __, a random text passage is chosen from a book for divination purposes.

Bibliomancy

__ refers to interpretations based on the movements and reflections in water.

Hydromancy

The practice of reading omens from bird behavior is known as __.

ornithomancy

A form of divination where grains are placed on words for interpretation by a pecking bird is called __.

Alectryomancy

The __ effect is a psychological phenomenon where vague personal descriptions are believed to be highly accurate.

Barnum Effect

The __ hypothesis suggests that individuals perform better when others have higher expectations of them.

Pygmalion Effect

Cold reading is a technique used by psychics based on assessing __ and generalizations about a person.

body language

The __ is the belief that all events are determined by preexisting causal chains.

Determinism

__ is the philosophical concept that individuals have the ability to make choices independently.

Free Will

According to __, high accuracy ratings are given to vague personality descriptions.

The Barnum Effect

The __ theory examines how minor changes can lead to significantly different outcomes in systems.

Chaos Theory

__ refers to the gradual loss of control or effectiveness of digital platforms over time.

Platform decay

Moore's Law predicts that the number of transistors on a microchip will __ approximately every two years.

double

Eroom's Law highlights the increasing cost and difficulty of __ development over time.

pharmaceutical

The __ refers to a marketing concept that suggests trends will always cycle back every 20 years.

fashion cycle

The __ cycle describes the tendency for nostalgic trends to reappear over time.

nostalgia cycle

A news cycle can refer to both the time it takes for news to be reported and follow-up editions in __ media.

traditional

The __ cycle outlines the overall trends in an economy, marking changes in GDP.

business cycle

The __ refers to patterns of growth or decline in individual industries and stocks.

market cycle

A __ is a term in systems modeling that defines or influences system behavior.

parameter

In a __ equilibrium, a system restores itself to its original state after disturbance.

stable

The __ is a three-part curve representing the failure rate of electronics over time.

bathtub curve

The __ model explains how flocks of individuals move cohesively without central control.

flocking model

In __, individual decision-making is influenced by collective group behavior amongst agents.

self-organization

The concept that some systems exhibit behavior that is more than the sum of their parts is known as __.

emergence

The __ problem highlights the complexities in calculating the motion of three objects influenced by gravity.

three-body problem

__ refers to predictions made based on analyzing climate patterns across longer timeframes.

climate modeling

refers to divination techniques using a dice or knucklebones to determine outcomes.

Astragalomancy

The __ effect describes how even small personal beliefs can influence outcomes and behaviors in individuals' lives.

self-fulfilling prophecy

__ is the interpretation of celestial movements, which affects predictions about human behavior.

astrology

__ involves the use of technical tools to predict human behavior using a series of complex variables.

Data analysis

The Seond Coming by William Butler Yeats is a poem that has the message of a poor _____ full of des___

Future, -pair

In the ___ ___ ___ by Emily _____, it discusses how the future never present itself ____

The Future Never Spoke, Dickinson, Early

______ is reading omens from the behavior of birds

Ornithomancy

_______ is a form of divination that happens when the observer places birds (usually a rooster) on a text of paper

Alectromancy

______ is a form of divination that involves interpreting omens from the movement, shape, or reflections in a cup

Scyphomancy

_____ is the practice of studying a palm for fortune-telling

Palmistry

_______ interprets a person's character, destiny, and even future events based on their facial features and physical appearance

Physiognomy

______ is another form of divination, however, involving wax

Ceromancy

___ is a divination system and a religious text ( Yoruba religion ) that originated from ______ in West Africa. The system relied on memorising and reciting sacred poems, stories, and proverbs, known as ___ Ifá

Ifá, Yorubaland, Odu

Vedic Astrology, also known as “_____” is an ancient system of astrology that originated in India thousands of years ago.

Jyotish

______ or moon blocks are wooden divination tools of Chinese origin

Jiaobei

______ are random strips of fortune of Japanese origin

Omikuji

A ________ is an individual claiming capability of clairvoyance (clair meaning clear, and voyance meaning to see).

clairvoyant

_______ are Zodiacs, they are based on the constellations of the stars. Each Zodiac has different meanings. If you are a _____ (one of the Zodiacs) you are being said to be emotional, intuitive, and nurturing. (stupid divination)

Horoscopes, Cancer

Unlike other people who envision flying cars, Kaku thinks that ____ are instead on the rise - a _____ rise.

Drones, dangerous

• Within the century, Kaku predicts that we’ll come in contact with ____ via listening to their radio communications

• Near the end of the century, AI will have evolved so much that it might even _____ humans - or at least match human intelligence

Aliens, replace

The Fortune Teller - _______ (1595)

The scene describes a woman doing _____ on a well-groomed man (read what palmistry is above). The woman is full of deceit, of lies, but her seductive ____ covers it all.

Caravggio, Palmistry, Smile