Perception: Toward the recovery of a definition.

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"The concept of the percept of the perceptual response, if it is to retain any useful meaning, requires definition at least in those situations where contradictory or controversial statements are made about it. Two sets of defining operations are suggested: (a) psychophysical scaling of experimental situations in terms of the immediacy or perceptual quality of the experiences they arouse; (b) the requiring of responses which cannot be made, by the naive subject, in the complete absence of the stimulus. The degree to which the presented stimulus fails to determine the response marks the ambiguity of the psycho-physical relationship under a given task set." 30 references.
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