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Deutsch: Wahrnehmungsverarbeitung / Español: Procesamiento perceptivo / Português: Processamento perceptivo / Français: Traitement perceptif / Italiano: Elaborazione percettiva

Perceptual Processing in the psychology context refers to the mental operations that interpret and organize sensory information from the environment. It is how the brain translates raw sensory input—like light, sound, touch, or movement—into meaningful experiences. This process is fundamental to how we understand the world and ourselves within it.

Perceptual processing is involved in everything from recognizing faces and reading emotions to navigating spaces and identifying dangers. It plays a central role in perception, learning, memory, and interaction with the environment.

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Perceptual set refers to the tendency to perceive an object or pattern in a certain way that us based on one’s immediate perceptual experience.

Perceptual span is defined as the size of the area from which a reader picks up visual information.

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Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) is defined as a balloon-tipped catheter which is inserted into a blocked coronary artery and plaque is pushed back to artery wall to open the blood vessel.

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Perdition means loss of the soul; eternal damnation. It means hell or utter ruin.

Peremptory challenge is defined as a method of removing a potential juror from a jury panel in which the attorney need not specify the reason

Peremptory challenges is a term used in Forensic psychology that refers tolimited number of challenges by which a potential juror may be dismissed by either the prosecution or the defense without assignment of reason. (see Challenge for cause or Voir dire ) Likewise defined as set number of challenges allowed each side (prosecution and defense) during Voir dire to remove jurors suspected of bias against that side.

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Perfect use refers to the probability of contraceptive failure for a perfect user of each method.