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  2. Perception - Wikipedia

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    Perception (from Latin perceptio 'gathering, receiving') is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and ...

  3. Optics and vision - Wikipedia

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    Visual perception is the ability to interpret information and surroundings from visible light reaching the eye. The resulting perception is also known as eyesight , sight or vision . The various physiological components involved in vision are referred to collectively as the visual system , and are the focus of much research in psychology ...

  4. Visual perception - Wikipedia

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    Visual perception is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment through photopic vision (daytime vision), color vision, scotopic vision (night vision), and mesopic vision (twilight vision), using light in the visible spectrum reflected by objects in the environment.

  5. Mind - Wikipedia

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    The mind is responsible for phenomena like perception, thought, feeling, and action.. The mind is that which thinks, feels, perceives, imagines, remembers, and wills.It covers the totality of mental phenomena, including both conscious processes, through which an individual is aware of external and internal circumstances, and unconscious processes, which can influence an individual without ...

  6. Stevens's power law - Wikipedia

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    Stevens' power law is an empirical relationship in psychophysics ... (1974), "Variability of magnitude estimates: a timing theory analysis", Perception ...

  7. French and Raven's bases of power - Wikipedia

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    Referent power in a negative form produces actions in opposition to the intent of the influencing agent, this is the result from the agent's creation of cognitive dissonance between the referent influencing agent and the target's perception of that influence. [5]

  8. Philosophy of perception - Wikipedia

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    The philosophy of perception is concerned with the nature of perceptual experience and the status of perceptual data, in particular how they relate to beliefs about, or knowledge of, the world. [1] Any explicit account of perception requires a commitment to one of a variety of ontological or metaphysical views.

  9. Sense data - Wikipedia

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    The theory of sense data is a view in the philosophy of perception, popularly held in the early 20th century by philosophers such as Bertrand Russell, C. D. Broad, H. H. Price, A. J. Ayer, and G. E. Moore. Sense data are taken to be mind-dependent objects whose existence and properties are known directly to us in perception.