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- Dictionaryperception/pəˈsɛpʃn/
noun
- 1. the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses: "the normal limits to human perception"
- 2. the way in which something is regarded, understood, or interpreted: "Hollywood's perception of the tastes of the American public"
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4 days ago · Perceptual speed: The ability to see differences and similarities among objects; Reasoning: The ability to find rules; Spatial visualization: The ability to visualize relationships; Verbal comprehension: The ability to define and understand words; Word fluency: The ability to produce words rapidly
2 days ago · The third eye (also called the mind's eye or inner eye) is an invisible eye, usually depicted as located on the forehead, supposed to provide perception beyond ordinary sight. In Hinduism, the third eye refers to the ajna (or brow) chakra.
2 days ago · A percentage of correct guesses (or hits) significantly above 20% was perceived as higher than chance and indicative of psychic ability. Rhine stated in his first book, Extrasensory Perception (1934), that after 90,000 trials, he felt ESP is "an actual and demonstrable occurrence".
4 days ago · consciousness, a psychological condition defined by the English philosopher John Locke as “the perception of what passes in a man’s own mind.” (Read Yuval Noah Harari’s Britannica essay on “Nonconscious Man.”)
5 days ago · the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept.
4 days ago · The very attempt to define religion, to find some distinctive or possibly unique essence or set of qualities that distinguish the religious from the remainder of human life, is primarily a Western concern.
5 days ago · Schemas influence how we perceive and respond to the world around us, shaping our thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors. Being more aware of them can help us detect our biases and negative schemas, and then we can seek out strategies to change them.
5 days ago · Perception is dependent on the perception of signals that the five senses transmit to the brain. Each sense affects how we react to the environment and how we perceive events around us — touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing.
4 days ago · Perception, Memory and Cognition will cover a series of robust, valuable, and enduring findings illustrating the accumulation of knowledge through experimentation and theory development. From historical studies of response time and perceptual processes through to modern tests of applied decision making, you will learn how theories ...
1 day ago · Apperception is how your mind puts new information in context. You get a perception of a chair through your eyes, but apperception is how your mind relates it to chairs you've seen before.
