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Definition of Percept
1. Noun. The representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept.
Generic synonyms: Internal Representation, Mental Representation, Representation
Specialized synonyms: Figure, Ground, Visual Image, Visual Percept
Terms within: Form, Pattern, Shape
Definition of Percept
1. n. That which is perceived.
Definition of Percept
1. Noun. (context: psychology philosophy now rare) Something perceived; the object of perception. (defdate from 19th c.) ¹
2. Noun. (psychology philosophy) A perceived object as it exists in the mind of someone perceiving it; the mental impression that is the result of perceiving something. (defdate from 19th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Percept
1. something that is perceived [n -S]
Medical Definition of Percept
1. 1. That which is perceived; the complete mental image, formed by the process of perception, of an object or idea. 2. In clinical psychology, a single unit of perceptual report, such as one of the responses to an inkblot in the Rorschach test. Origin: L. Perceptum, a thing perceived (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Percept
Literary usage of Percept
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts (1916)
"that "A ball is a spherical body of any substance or size, used to play with, as
by throwing, kicking, or knocking, etc.!" The percept Involves All ..."
2. A Manual of Psychology by George Frederick Stout (1899)
"The sensible qualities such as colour, sound, etc., in all their varieties enter
into the composition both of the percept and of the image, ..."
3. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Applied to the act itself which is thus performed; a phrase which corresponds to
percept, the object of sense-intuition. Some writers use synergy for the ..."
4. Psychology; Or, The Science of Mind by Oliver S. Munsell (1880)
"In that typical percept, as our subsequent analysis will reveal, the soul comes
... Analysis of a Typical percept.—If, then, this typical percept be rigidly ..."
5. Principles of Educational Practice by Paul Klapper (1912)
"When the experience is actually present before the senses, the mind's reaction
gives rise to a percept, but when the experience is revived, ..."
6. The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology by Boris Sidis (1914)
"CHAPTER XX THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE percept AS in many other sciences,
especially the ones of the purely mental variety, a good deal in psychology ..."
7. Elements of Psychology by George Croom Robertson (1896)
"We found first of all the percept and explained it only in its connexion ...
We then took account of the Image and saw that it was related to the percept. ..."
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