Concept information
Preferred term
theoretical approaches
Definition
- Theories serve as frameworks to organize facts and as springboards to launch new hypotheses. Some theories in perception are loose collections of assumptions, often unexamined by empirical researchers, and some are well developed and carefully constructed explanatory systems. [Source: Encyclopedia of Perception; Theoretical Approaches]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Bayesian statistics
- computational approaches to perception
- direct perception
- ecological approach
- embodied perception
- evolutionary approach
- evolutionary approach: perceptual adaptations
- gestalt approach
- indirect nature of perception
- information theory
- physiological approach
- psychophysical approach
- theory of mind
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/theoretical_approaches
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