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N., Sam M.S.

Sam holds a masters in Child Psychology and is an avid supporter of Psychology academics.
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PERCEPTUAL RESTRUCTURING

the procedure of changing a comprehension to adapt to new data.

PERCEPTUAL RIVALRY

the incompatibility of varying comprehensions of the same item. Whenever an ambiguous form allowing two varying perceptual interpretations is viewed,

PERCEPTUAL SEGREGATION

the pulling apart of one portion of a perceptual region from the whole by physical barriers or attention-diverting techniques.

PERCEPTUAL SENSITIZATION

the lessening of someone

PERCEPTUAL SET

1. a transient readiness to understand particular items or occurrences instead of others. 2. a schema or frame of reference

PERCEPTUAL STYLE

the typical way that someone attends to, chooses, changes, and perceives sensory stimulants. Some hold the belief that perceptual operations

PERCEPTUAL SYNTHESIS

1. the compilation of experience from all the senses to establish insight of the exterior world and one's encounters with

PERCEPTUAL TRAINING

a way of bettering a person's capacity to understand perceived items or occurrences in concrete terms.

PERCEPTUAL TRANSFORMATION

1. any change in a percept generated by (i) an addition to, elimination from, or modification in a physical stimulant

PERCEPTUAL USER INTERFACE

an interface which would allow a computer system to perceive, comprehend, and react adequately to the facial expressions, talking, gestures

PERCEPTUALIZATION

noun. 1. Reference: perceptual organization. 2. with regard to schizophrenia, the changing of abstract ideas into particular comprehensions.

PERCEPTUAL-MOTOR COORDINATION

the employment of perceptually-gathered data in the management of continuing motions.

PERCEPTUAL-MOTOR LEARNING

the acquiring of a skill which necessitates connecting the perceptual discrimination of imperative stimulants with adequate motor reactions.

PERCEPTUAL-MOTOR MATCH

the capacity to relate perceptual information with a formerly acquired group of motor reactions. Someone with brain damage might have

PERCIPIENT

1. adjective. able of perception. 2. noun. With regard to parapsychology, the supposed receiver of telepathic correspondences or other extrasensory

PEREGRINATION

broad or excessive traveling from one place to another. Peregrination is one of the vital aspects of Munchautilizen syndrome: The

PEREMPTORY CHALLENGE

a request posed to the judge during voir dire posing that a prospective member of the jury be removed, allowing

PERFECTIONISM

noun. the propensity to require of other people or of oneself a greater degree of performance than is mandated by

PERFORANT PATH

the route of axons which perforate the subiculum to supply the hippocampus with main inputs.

PERFORMANCE

noun. 1. any activity or gathering of reactions which leads to an outcome or has an impact on the surroundings.