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  2. Perception management - Wikipedia

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    Perception management is a term originated by the US military. [citation needed] The US Department of Defense (DOD) gives this definition: Actions to convey and/or deny selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning as well as to intelligence systems and leaders at all levels to influence official estimates, ultimately ...

  3. Perceptual control theory - Wikipedia

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    Perceptual control theory (PCT) is a model of behavior based on the properties of negative feedback control loops. A control loop maintains a sensed variable at or near a reference value by means of the effects of its outputs upon that variable, as mediated by physical properties of the environment.

  4. Impression management - Wikipedia

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    Impression management is usually used synonymously with self-presentation, in which a person tries to influence the perception of their image. The notion of impression management was first applied to face-to-face communication , but then was expanded to apply to computer-mediated communication .

  5. Action-specific perception - Wikipedia

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    Action-specific perception, or perception-action, is a psychological theory that people perceive their environment and events within it in terms of their ability to act. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This theory hence suggests that a person's capability to carry out a particular task affects how they perceive the different aspects and methods involved in that task.

  6. Situated cognition - Wikipedia

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    Situated cognition draws a variety of perspectives, from an anthropological study of human behavior in the context of technology-mediated work, [6] or within communities of practice [14] to the ecological psychology of the perception-action cycle [15] and intentional dynamics, [16] and even research on robotics with work on autonomous agents at ...

  7. Gordon's functional health patterns - Wikipedia

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    Health Perception and Management; Nutritional metabolic; Elimination-excretion patterns and problems need to be evaluated (constipation, incontinence, diarrhea) Activity exercise-whether one is able to do daily activities normally without any problem, self care activities

  8. Free energy principle - Wikipedia

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    The free energy principle is a mathematical principle of information physics: much like the principle of maximum entropy or the principle of least action, it is true on mathematical grounds. To attempt to falsify the free energy principle is a category mistake, akin to trying to falsify calculus by making empirical observations. (One cannot ...

  9. Predictive coding - Wikipedia

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    The understanding of perception as the interaction between sensory stimuli (bottom-up) and conceptual knowledge (top-down) continued to be established by Jerome Bruner who, starting in the 1940s, studied the ways in which needs, motivations and expectations influence perception, research that came to be known as 'New Look' psychology.