释义 |
perceptual, a.|pəˈsɛptjuːəl| [f. L. type *perceptu-s (cf. conceptu-s), from percipĕre to perceive + -al1: cf. conceptual.] Of or pertaining to perception; of the nature of percepts. perceptual defence, a raising of the threshold of perception when the stimulus is emotionally charged in an unfavourable way; perceptual-motor adj., involving motor behaviour as guided by or dependent on perception.
1878S. H. Hodgson Philos. of Reflection I. 315 The conceptual order being the obverse aspect of the perceptual. 1889Max Müller in 19th Cent. Mar. 399 Our perceptual images. 1890Athenæum 25 Jan. 121/2 The origin of concepts or universals was traced to acts of attending to perceptual data for the purpose of harmonizing them with their perceptual context. 1948L. Postman in Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. XLIII. 152/1 Value orientation may..raise thresholds for unacceptable stimulus objects. We shall refer to this mechanism as perceptual defense. 1950Jrnl. Personality XIX. 85 These data were interpreted as indicative of a perceptual defense to emotional stimuli originating at a level which precedes full conscious awareness. 1951U.S. Human Resources Research Center Research Bull. No. 51–7 (title) The influence of types of instructions on the performance of a perceptual-motor task. 1955[see meclozine]. 1962J. G. Taylor Behavioral Basis of Perception vi. 130 It is no more possible for one person to make comparisons with another person's perceptual field than it is to describe the dimensions of personality in terms of centimeters, grams, and seconds. 1968J. B. Oxendine Psychol. of Motor Learning i. 14 A forehand stroke in tennis would be classified as a perceptual-motor skill, and swimming would not. 1969Freeman & Giovannoni in Lindzey & Aronson Handbk. Social Psychol. (ed. 2) V. 688 Studies of schizophrenics indicate that perceptual thresholds and estimation of size are dependent on the emotional concomitants of the visual stimuli. 1970M. J. Meldman Dis. Attention & Perception v. 95 The phenomenon of perceptual defense and the relationship of emotion to perception. 1972Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 36/5 Dr. Krippner told me just a few of the non-drugging approaches that could and should be used with children whose classroom behavior is ‘divergent’—vitamin therapy, perceptual-motor therapy, [etc.]. 1976Classical Q. XXVI. 39, I shall be illustrating the perceptual case, so let me simply note here a few examples from the case of pleasure and pain. 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Apr. 529/2 We do not observe the seventeenth-century butcher directly vivid though the picture is; we see him through the perceptual schemata of the artist and his patron. Hence perˈceptualize v., to express in perceptual terms; perˌceptualiˈzation.
1896W. Caldwell Schopenhauer's Syst. iii. 167 A highly interesting feature..is his pronounced tendency to perceptualise intellection, to assimilate all real knowledge to the type of perception and immediate apprehension. 1968P. McKellar Experience & Behaviour iv. 121 This hallucination represents an instance of a perceptualization of the man's realization of what had happened to him. |