When a stimulus is perceived to match several different past experiences, however, the response may be a compromise, because an object need not bear an all-or-none relation to a set of others in discrimination learning; for example, there is no absolute distinction between tall and short people.
This was perceived to match the personal characteristics of PhD student A, a perception we shared.
"It is only a matter of time," he argues, "before Pakistan formally brings nuclear weapons into its own fleet".Other reasons for expecting this include a perceived need to match India's own development of sea-based systems, missiles and missile defences, and fear that a future government in Afghanistan might be hostile.
Despite wide product availability and choice, many retailers reported that actual demand for the product, while initially high, had slowed down and in some areas stalled; a trend attributed by some retailers to customers' unwillingness to switch and to the product's perceived failure to match the properties of conventional tobacco.
This pattern of performance arose because the Gabor introduced in the change-same condition is perceptually matched to the appearance of the adapting stimulus (wherein the target noise is perceived to have an orientation that matches the flankers), whereas the change-different stimulus appeared markedly different from the adapting stimulus (see Figure 2A).
Since the Web's early days, he added, "what we've seen is that the reality has never matched what people perceived to be the potential".
The 'care standard' with a focus on the organization of CVRM was perceived not to match with current practice; it was not sufficiently matched to specific practice characteristics and was perceived to require a lot of training.
Policy makers can now ratchet counterterrorism up or down to match the perceived threat.
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At least four explanations are possible for why pollsters got it so wrong: their samples were biased; there was a herding problem, in which some of them massaged their figures to match the perceived view that the race was tight; there was a (very) late swing to the Conservatives that they failed to pick up; or many of their respondents were telling fibs.
During the Enlightenment in Europe and its attendant efforts at biological classification during the 18th century, as naturalists and others attempted to find specific categories for all life-forms, organisms that failed to match a perceived species average were often referred to as lusus naturae, cavorts, or freaks of nature.
