Word Finder - perception

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The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.

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Conscious understanding of something.

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Vision (ability)

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Acuity

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(cognition) That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through fog, trying to understand if you see a small dog or a cat); also that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc.

When sight in one eye is affected, it can affect our depth perception.

Several experiments were tried, to determine positively whether or not she had any perception of sound.

The information was beyond valuable, and on a level that further altered Gabe's perception on Deidre.

Dean smiled at the young lady's perception.

Parents can be surprised by their child's perception of family issues.

Other and older plants give evidence of the same perception, though they do not respond all in the same way.

Observation of germinating seedlings makes it clear that somehow they have a perception of direction.

As children grow, more complex skills, like visual perception, develop.

External things are things known to us in immediate perception.

It's simply designed to help you gauge your powers of perception wherever you are at this point in your life.

A third analytical tool is the Titmus II Vision Tester Color Perception Test.

The ability to draw is as much about perception as it is about creating.

Nevertheless, Reid's insistence on judgment as the unit of knowledge and his sharp distinction between sensation and perception must still be recognized as of the highest importance.

There's nothing sweeter (or cornier depending on your perception) than the entire family wearing the same pajamas on Christmas morning.

It involved the adoption of a point of view as to the relation between the motions of bodies of different forms, which practically amounted to a perception of the principle of energy as applied to the case in question.

The perception of relations, which, according to him, is the essence of cognition, the demonstrative character which he thinks attaches to our inference of God's existence, the intuitive knowledge of self, are doctrines incapable of being brought into harmony with the view of mind and its development which is the keynote of his general theory.

Existence of any fact, not present as a perception, can only be proved by arguments from cause or effect.

To take one's watch from the pocket and look at it when from a familiar clock-tower a familiar bell strikes a familiar hour, is an instance of a habitual action initiated by a sense perception outside attentive consciousness.

Perception gives information on the pain's location, intensity, and something about its nature.

Murray for children (ten years old and older) as well as adults, uses a standard series of 31 picture cards in assessing perception of interpersonal relationships.

This ability is commonly referred to as extrasensory perception (ESP) or mind reading.

Candy Girls wanted to change this perception.

On this quite new assumption of a sense of sensations he deduces that, from a perception of these mental facts, we could not infer material facts, e.g.

Familiar cases can readily be found of the perception of the mass of bodies, independently of their tendency to fall towards the earth.

Modern philosophers seem inclined to think that personal identity arises from consciousness, and consciousness is nothing but a reflected thought or perception.

Like a warm breath, it pervades the human structure and works with it; nor could it act as it does in perception unless it were corporeal.

The psychologist finds among the earliest of his problems the question as to the process from the perception of things seen and heard to mental conceptions, which are ultimately distinct from immediate perception (see Psychology).

Pattern matching in perception offers an explanation for the transference relationship.

Your kids may recognize the brand as well, which means they'll already have a good perception of the pets.

The real reasons lie in the perception of gender roles and fashion.

The Perception style is compatible for those who need to insert prescription lenses into the clear lens portion of the glasses.

Narcotics are addictive drugs that reduce the user's perception of pain and induce euphoria (a feeling of exaggerated and unrealistic well-being).

When a person takes an opioid medication, the drug attaches to these opioid receptors in the brain and spinal cord and decreases the person's perception of pain.

Children's responses to their own drawings and their perception of the level of their competence is often affected by the attitudes of their peers and adults who react to their art work.

They may have some learning disabilities, particularly with regard to spatial perception, visual-motor coordination, and mathematics.

Visual perception, visual-motor skills, and critical thinking skills can also be affected.

This idea is impossible if love is seen as a limited resource, and a lot of time is spent by poly advocates and teachers trying to counter this perception.

Kim Miller is a successful artist who uses her skills to express her emotions and to share her perception.

Further, some doctors think there is a physiological link between AS or autism and mood disorders like OCD which may impair a person's ability to regulate emotions and perception.

Both were moved by their dissatisfaction with the theory of representative perception.

Chief among these encumbering presuppositions was that of a fundamental distinction between perception and conception and consequent upon it between the synthetic and the analytic use of thought.

The strength of Janet's position is his perception that the argument from final causes is in favour of an omnipresent rational will making matter a means to ends, and not in favour of an immanent mind of Nature working out her own ends.

Hamilton's views both on the absolute and on perception affected Mansel and Spencer.

If?li there is one thing certain in the Kantian philosophy, it is its author's perception that what is contributed by mind must not be extended to things beyond mind.

He facilitated this awkward transition by adding to Kant's a priori forms of space and time an " a priori form of alternative causality," or, as he also called it, " an intuition of causality involved in the elementary exercise of perception," which is the key to his whole philosophy.

Hume's theory of mathematics - the only one, perhaps, which is compatible with his fundamental principle of psychology - is a practical condemnation of his empirical theory of perception.

As this thing can only be an impression or perception, and is not itself present, it is represented by its copy or idea.

But as each perception is in consciousness only as a contingent fact, which might not be or might be other than it is, we must admit that the mind can conceive no necessary relations or connexions among the several portions of its experience.

If, therefore, a present perception leads us to assert the existence of some other, this can only be interpreted as meaning that in some natural, i.e.

One fact or perception is discovered by experience to be uniformly or generally accompanied by another, and its occurrence therefore naturally excites the idea of that other.