Category: P
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Perceptual invariants
Attributes of stimuli, or relationships among stimuli, that remain the same under different conditions.
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Perceptual differentiation
Learning to perceive features of stimulus patterns that were not perceptible at first.
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Perceptual defense
The tendency to perceive anxiety-related stimuli less readily than neutral stimuli.
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Perceptual constancy
The tendency for a person to perceive objects correctly in spite of changes in the proximal stimulus provided by these objects.
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Perceptual changes
Changes in sensory awareness.
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Perceptual adaptation
The gradual adjustment to various distortions of perceptions.
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Perceptual abnormality
The inability of an individual to interpret internal or external stimuli.
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Perceptiveness
The ability to notice happenings.
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Perceptive deafness
A type of deafness that involves the auditory nerve, cerebral pathways, or the auditory center of the brain, conductive deafness. Deafness resulting from lesions involving sensory receptors of the cochlea or fibers of the acoustic nerve, or a combination of these.
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Percentile rank
The percentage of all the scores in a distribution that lie below a given score, percentile.