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Auditory Perception - The process whereby auditory stimuli are selected, organized and interpreted by the organism; includes speech discrimination. |
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Body Image - Individuals' personal concept of their bodies as objects in and bound by space, independently and apart from all other objects. |
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Depth Perception - Perception of three-dimensionality. |
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Differential Threshold - The smallest difference which can be discriminated between two stimuli or one which is barely above the threshold. |
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Discrimination (Psychology) - Differential response to different stimuli. |
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Eidetic Imagery - A visual image which is recalled in accurate detail. It is a sort of projection of an image on a mental screen. |
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Field Dependence-Independence - The ability to respond to segments of the perceptual experience rather than to the whole. |
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Form Perception - The sensory discrimination of a pattern shape or outline. |
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Gravity Perception - Process whereby a bodily structure or organism (animal or plant) receives or detects a gravity stimulus. The sensing may be direct or indirect and may or may not initiate a reaction to the stimulus. |
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Perceptual Distortion - Lack of correspondence between the way a stimulus is commonly perceived and the way an individual perceives it under given conditions. |
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Sensory Deprivation - The absence or restriction of the usual external sensory stimuli to which the individual responds. |
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Sensory Thresholds - The minimum amount of stimulus energy necessary to elicit a sensory response. |
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Size Perception - The sensory interpretation of the dimensions of objects. |
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Social Perception - The perceiving of attributes, characteristics, and behaviors of one's associates or social groups. |
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Space Perception - The awareness of the spatial properties of objects; includes physical space. |
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Time Perception - The ability to estimate periods of time lapsed or duration of time. |
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Touch - Sensation or perception by which contact with objects, animate or inanimate, gives evidence as to certain qualities or characteristics. |
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Visual Perception - The selecting and organizing of visual stimuli based on the individual's past experience. |
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Weight Perception - Recognition and discrimination of the heaviness of a lifted object. |
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