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Perception Actors’ subjective organization and interpretation of sensory information and experience as having been produced by the properties of objects or events in the external, three-dimensional world; 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: perceptual blindness, mind, memory, learning)
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