Glossary P

Deutsch: Prozentrang / Español: Rango percentil / Português: Classificação percentil / Français: Rang percentile / Italiano: Percentile rank /

Percentile rank refers to the proportion of scores that fall below a particular score.

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Perception is defined as the mental process of organizing sensations into meaningful patterns. Moreover, Perception is the process of "knowing" which depends on intact sensation; mental experience that occurs when sensations are given meaning by the memory of past experiences. According to Helmholtz, Perception is the mental experience arising when sensations are embellished by the recollection of past experiences.

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Perceptiveness is defined as the ability to accurately read non-verbal messages.

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Perceptual ability is the measure of facility with such processes as spatial relations and form perception.

Perceptual classification is a term used in classification tasks that refers to the grouping together of items on the basis of perceptual characteristics. In contrast with Idiosyncratic, Complementary, and Conceptual classification.

Perceptual constancy is the tendency of people to respond to objects as being the same, even when they experience those objects under a wide variety of circumstances. Perceptual constancy occurs when our perception of an object remains the same even when our proximal sensation of the distal object changes

Perceptual construction is defined as a meaningful mental model of external events.

Perceptual defense is defined as the unwillingness to report perceiving unpleasant material, in contrast to an inability to perceive such material