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Perception

Actors’ subjective organization and interpretation of sensory information and experience;

an hypothesized intervening process linking physical stimuli with an organism’s unique psychological dynamics and makeup, such as schema, beliefs, expectations, attitudes, and mood, etc. – a constructive process, see expectation.

 

 

Sensory

Of or pertaining to the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, and to the neurological mechanisms underlying the process of sensation.

 

 

(see also: mind, memory).

 

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