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Perception vs Exteroception - What's the difference?

perception | exteroception |

As nouns the difference between perception and exteroception

is that perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information while exteroception is the perception of environmental stimuli acting on the body.

perception

English

(wikipedia perception)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.
  • Conscious understanding of something.
  • Vision (ability )
  • Acuity
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * perceive * percept * perceptual

    External links

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    exteroception

    English

    Noun

  • The perception of environmental stimuli acting on the body