What does perception mean?
Definitions for perception
pərˈsɛp ʃənper·cep·tion
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Princeton's WordNet
percept, perception, perceptual experiencenoun
the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept
perceptionnoun
a way of conceiving something
"Luther had a new perception of the Bible"
perceptionnoun
the process of perceiving
perceptionnoun
knowledge gained by perceiving
"a man admired for the depth of his perception"
sensing, perceptionnoun
becoming aware of something via the senses
Wiktionary
perceptionnoun
Conscious understanding of something.
perceptionnoun
Vision (ability)
perceptionnoun
Acuity
perceptionnoun
(cognition) That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through fog, trying to understand if you see a small dog or a cat); also that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc.
Etymology: From perception, from perceptio, from percipere, past participle perceptus; see perceive.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Perceptionnoun
Etymology: perception, Fr. perceptio, Lat.
Matter hath no life nor perception, and is not conscious of its own existence. Richard Bentley, Sermons.
Perception is that act of the mind, or rather a passion or impression, whereby the mind becomes conscious of any thing; as when I feel hunger, thirst, cold or heat. Isaac Watts.
By the inventors, and their followers that would seem not to come too short of the perceptions of the leaders, they are magnified. Matthew Hale, Origin of Mankind.
Great mountains have a perception of the disposition of the air to tempests sooner than the vallies below; and therefore they say in Wales, when certain hills have their night caps on, they mean mischief. Francis Bacon.
This experiment discovereth perception in plants to move towards that which should comfort them, though at a distance. Francis Bacon, Natural History.
Wikipedia
Perception
Perception (from Latin perceptio 'gathering, receiving') is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment. All perception involves signals that go through the nervous system, which in turn result from physical or chemical stimulation of the sensory system. Vision involves light striking the retina of the eye; smell is mediated by odor molecules; and hearing involves pressure waves. Perception is not only the passive receipt of these signals, but it is also shaped by the recipient's learning, memory, expectation, and attention. Sensory input is a process that transforms this low-level information to higher-level information (e.g., extracts shapes for object recognition). The process that follows connects a person's concepts and expectations (or knowledge), restorative and selective mechanisms (such as attention) that influence perception. Perception depends on complex functions of the nervous system, but subjectively seems mostly effortless because this processing happens outside conscious awareness. Since the rise of experimental psychology in the 19th century, psychology's understanding of perception has progressed by combining a variety of techniques. Psychophysics quantitatively describes the relationships between the physical qualities of the sensory input and perception. Sensory neuroscience studies the neural mechanisms underlying perception. Perceptual systems can also be studied computationally, in terms of the information they process. Perceptual issues in philosophy include the extent to which sensory qualities such as sound, smell or color exist in objective reality rather than in the mind of the perceiver.Although people traditionally viewed the senses as passive receptors, the study of illusions and ambiguous images has demonstrated that the brain's perceptual systems actively and pre-consciously attempt to make sense of their input. There is still active debate about the extent to which perception is an active process of hypothesis testing, analogous to science, or whether realistic sensory information is rich enough to make this process unnecessary.The perceptual systems of the brain enable individuals to see the world around them as stable, even though the sensory information is typically incomplete and rapidly varying. Human and other animal brains are structured in a modular way, with different areas processing different kinds of sensory information. Some of these modules take the form of sensory maps, mapping some aspect of the world across part of the brain's surface. These different modules are interconnected and influence each other. For instance, taste is strongly influenced by smell.
ChatGPT
perception
Perception is the process by which individuals interpret and organize sensory information to understand their environment. It involves the recognition and interpretation of sensory stimuli based primarily on memory and is also influenced by various factors such as attention, expectation, emotion, and motivation. Perception can occur through any of the five senses - sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste.
Webster Dictionary
Perceptionnoun
the act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition
Perceptionnoun
the faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from conception
Perceptionnoun
the quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility
Perceptionnoun
an idea; a notion
Etymology: [L. perceptio: cf. F. perception. See Perceive.]
Wikidata
Perception
Perception is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the environment. All perception involves signals in the nervous system, which in turn result from physical stimulation of the sense organs. For example, vision involves light striking the retinas of the eyes, smell is mediated by odor molecules and hearing involves pressure waves. Perception is not the passive receipt of these signals, but can be shaped by learning, memory, and expectation. Perception involves these "top-down" effects as well as the "bottom-up" process of processing sensory input. The "bottom-up" processing is basically low-level information that's used to build up higher-level information. The "top-down" processing refers to a person's concept and expectations that influence perception. Perception depends on complex functions of the nervous system, but subjectively seems mostly effortless because this processing happens outside conscious awareness. Since the rise of experimental psychology in the late 19th Century, psychology's understanding of perception has progressed by combining a variety of techniques. Psychophysics measures the effect on perception of varying the physical qualities of the input. Sensory neuroscience studies the brain mechanisms underlying perception. Perceptual systems can also be studied computationally, in terms of the information they process. Perceptual issues in philosophy include the extent to which sensory qualities such as sounds, smells or colors exist in objective reality rather than the mind of the perceiver.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Perception
The process by which the nature and meaning of sensory stimuli are recognized and interpreted.
Editors Contribution
perception
To perceive with the senses.
She was well able to shift her perception as she navigated her way through life.
Submitted by MaryC on January 19, 2020
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'perception' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4237
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'perception' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4370
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'perception' in Nouns Frequency: #1302
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of perception in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of perception in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of perception in a Sentence
After AF447 many people had an intuitive perception that an accident of a plane cruising over the ocean is very, very rare and so it wasn't evident that there would be another (case), to see adoption of international norms taking time was frustrating. But we know processes are very slow, and then MH370 accelerated matters and there was momentum.
Paul Dergarabedian of comScore:
Jeff Bock, a box office analyst with Exhibitor Relations, declared to Variety. But Ben-Hur isn't the only epic fail. Proving that Americans aren't impressed with much of Hollywood's summer slate, there have been multiple flops, including the Ghostbusters remake, Alice Through The Looking Glass, Star Trek Beyond, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Independence Day: Resurgence, The Legend of Tarzan, Warcraft, X Men: Apocalypse, and the Steven Spielberg directed fantasy, The BFG. Still, as The Wrap just reported, North American ticket sales are up 2.84 percent over 2015 receipts at this time. The films have cumulatively earned an astounding $4.14 billion domestic in figures calculated from 108 days after the first Friday in May until Aug. 22. This summer suffered from the problem of perception versus reality.
The perception of the PR expert as a creative liar is going to die over the next few years. It will dissolve as a notion in the public mindset, because liars simply cannot exist in modern PR life.
There has been a release of pent-up demand that came with a greater perception of safety and activity that is drawing inbound migration from all over the country, now with the relaxation of the Covid travel ban, we expect an uptick of international demand in the coming months. The next leg up will be early next year when corporate America comes back and people return to work in large numbers.
There are still a lot of gaps to be closed in their perception of [Russia's] threat, and most importantly, their willingness to do something about that threat because I don't see them weaning themselves off of their addiction to Russian energy, and … not all of them contribute the 2% of their GDP to the collective security treaty.
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- ادراك حسيArabic
- percepcióCatalan, Valencian
- vnímání, vjemCzech
- WahrnehmungGerman
- αίσθηση, αντίληψη, όραση, διορατικότηταGreek
- percepciónSpanish
- ادراکPersian
- havainnointi, aistimus, havaintokyky, havaintoFinnish
- perceptionFrench
- toirt fa-nearScottish Gaelic
- תפיסה, קליטהHebrew
- अनुभूतिHindi
- észlelés, felfogás, megértésHungarian
- percezioneItalian
- 知覚Japanese
- sensusLatin
- uztvereLatvian
- perċezzjoniMaltese
- scherpzinnigheid, gewaarwording, zicht, perceptie, waarnemingDutch
- percepcjaPolish
- percepçãoPortuguese
- percepție, percepere, discernământ, discernere, sesizareRomanian
- ощущение, восприятие, перцепцияRussian
- vȋd, percèpcijaSerbo-Croatian
- uppfattningSwedish
- حواس خمسہ کا ادراک, حسی ادراکUrdu
- 知觉Chinese
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