Abstract
About 20 years ago Brunswik 1 published a theory of perception which embodies concept of probabilistic functionalism. The purpose of present article is to describe this theory and its application to personality development and functioning, with particular reference to interpersonal transactions. The term percept is defined in Webster's New International Dictionary as the meaningful impression of any object obtained by use of senses (italics mine). And it is in this broad sense that term perception is used in this article, i.e., to include notion of meaningful awareness of objects. It is of interest here that Allport 2 lists meaning as of six essential characteristics of perceptual process and Osgood 3 states that one would be hard put to draw a defensible distinction between perception and meaning. The latter author accordingly offers following broad, abstract definition of term perception as referring
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