(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility.
(n.) An idea; a notion.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
(2) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
(3) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(4) This study examined the effects of cultural factors on perception of 15 boys and 21 girls in Nigeria.
(5) Subtle differences between Chicago urban and Grand Forks rural climates are reflected in arthritic subjects' degree of pain and their perception of pain-related stress.
(6) Instead, he handed over the opening to reporter Molly Line, who said, “Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder,” before citing differing perceptions of the phenomenon between white and black people, which is like reading the headline “Rapist, Victim Differ on Consent”.
(7) The current study explored the temporal course of the perception of vowel duration.
(8) Subjects with high ocular-dominance scores (right- or left-dominant subjects) showed for the green stimulus asymmetric behavior, while subjects with low ocular-dominance scores showed a tendency toward symmetry in perception.
(9) For each theory, a constraint on preformance is proposed based on interference between the "analytic" and "synthetic" pitch perception modes.
(10) While research into the cause of altered pain perception in psychotic patients is continuing, clinicians should maintain a high index of suspicion of serious medical illness when evaluating such patients.
(11) The image of any radiology facility is a direct result of perceptions gathered by the consumer of their services.
(12) Three experiments in person perception were conducted to investigate the conditions under which naive observers label an actor as aggressive and to ascertain how this label affects the reactions of the observers to the actor.
(13) The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of listening experience on the perception of intraphonemic differences in the absence of specific training with the synthetic speech sounds being tested.
(14) Auditory sensory perception was operationalized as number of tones heard on audiometric examination.
(15) It has been shown that adequate brain provision of this process is based in adults both on the functional topographic differentiation and specialization of separate perceptive operations and on the possibility of controlling generalized and local activating influences according to task requirements.
(16) Quantitative analysis of pain demonstrated an 87% improvement in their perception of pain in the remaining 19 patients, with an average follow-up of 8.5 years.
(17) The reverberation times were 2.1 and 1.6 s. In quiet conditions at normal speech level (60 dBA), the perception was better without earmuffs than with them.
(18) The author differentiates between two modes of perception, one is the "expressive" mode, stabilizing and aiming at constancy, the other is the "impressive" mode, penetrating the self and aiming at identification with the percept.
(19) Lack of transparency about the nature of the relationship between police and media also led to speculation and perceptions, whatever the facts, that caused "serious harm".
(20) The tonic influences were expressed in an increase in the amplitude parameters of the responses of the visual cortex in conditions of the formation in the posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus of a focus of heightened excitability (anode polarization), and their perceptible diminution with potassium depression in this nucleus.
Prejudice
Definition:
(n.) Foresight.
(n.) An opinion or judgment formed without due examination; prejudgment; a leaning toward one side of a question from other considerations than those belonging to it; an unreasonable predilection for, or objection against, anything; especially, an opinion or leaning adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge.
(n.) A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interferes with fairness of judgment.
(n.) Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.
(n.) To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman.
(n.) To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or by previous bias of the mind; hence, generally, to hurt; to damage; to injure; to impair; as, to prejudice a good cause.
Example Sentences:
(1) What is Obama doing about the prejudice and violence faced by brown people here at home?
(2) All the same, it's hard to approach the school, which charges nearly £28,000 for boarders and nearly £19,000 for day girls and is sometimes called "the girls' Eton", without a few prejudices.
(3) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
(4) Irrational fear, anxiety and prejudice are not less common among health professionals than in the community generally; they require attention in HIV-related educational programs.
(5) Political policy is based on swivel-eyed assumptions and prejudices, rather than the world, evidence, the reality of suffering, the reality of global warming.
(6) It has been argued that linguistic usage pertaining to female sexuality generally is the product of a patriarchal value structure and, as such, reflects patriarchal prejudices about female sexuality.
(7) There was none of the prejudice found in much of the British press, just acceptance that it was part of the town’s civic duty to share in helping with a European-wide problem.
(8) In fact, it was Howard who first introduced a teenage Martin Amis to the delights of reading when she gave him a copy of Pride and Prejudice .
(9) Hakim is keen to stress that her thesis is "evidence based" and nothing to do with prejudice or ideology, and finishes her introduction with this rallying cry: "why not champion femininity rather than abolish it?
(10) BBC1 will also screen a three-part adaptation of PD James' Death Comes to Pemberley, the Jane Austen homage in the 200th anniversary year of Pride and Prejudice, as well as a three-part adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn and Remember Me, a ghost story by Gwyneth Hughes (Five Days, The Girl).
(11) The MPs also reject weakening the FoI law on the release of information that would prejudice collective ministerial responsibility, or inhibit the frank exchange of views within the government.
(12) Two unfortunate factors influencing the choice of drugs for clinical trial have been prejudice from the physician and commercial interests.
(13) The possible reasons for this, apart from poverty and malnutrition, are ignorance, fear and prejudice in availing themselves of public health services and reliance on bomohs and handiwomen and fatalism.
(14) Foreign aid, NHS queues, he pressed hot button prejudices, interrupted other speakers, his quick wit won both laughter and applause.
(15) Inequality, precarity and social division are the causes of our new callousness, helped by the rightwing press, but the real point is that Labour has only two choices in response: either continue to cringe before the prejudices of the public or try to change their minds by arguing for a distinct, simple and compelling alternative.
(16) And even tell them what they don't like to hear – that they bring prejudice and double standards in our own situation."
(17) Prejudice against the condom and a gap in the STOP AIDS campaign reasoning are considered as possible grounds for the resistance to the recommended condom protection.
(18) Therapists have been advised to become familiar with and sensitive to such characteristics and their manifestations and to be honest with themselves and patients about their prejudices (Sue et al.
(19) They demonstrate, at worst, a cavalier prejudice against work that the correspondents deemed shoddy.
(20) IN ORDER THAT ASIAN AMERICANS BE MORE ADEQUATELY PROVIDED WITH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO: (1) have a thorough educational campaign over a long period of time to help Asians overcome their negative prejudices against mental illness, (2) devise culturally relevant diagnostic techniques, and (3) have treatment consonant with the cultural backgrounds of the patients and befitting the role expectations of the patients.