Glossary P
Glossary P
Perceptual defense is defined as the unwillingness to report perceiving unpleasant material, in contrast to an inability to perceive such material
Perceptual expectancy (or set) refers to a readiness to perceive in a particular manner, induced by strong expectations.
Perceptual filters refer to the personality-, psychology-, or experience-based differences that influence people to ignore or pay attention to particular stimuli
Perceptual habits is defined as the well-established patterns of perceptual organization and attention.
Perceptual hypothesis is defined as an initial guess regarding how to organize (perceive) a stimulus pattern.
Perceptual learning is defined as the changes in how people construct sensory information into percepts that can be attributed to prior experience. It is the changes in perception that occur as a function of practice or experience with the stimuli; the changes in a person's ability to extract information from sensory stimulation that occur as a result of experience.