SENSORY DECEPTION

Also known asmisperception. Both expressions are umbrella terms for hallucinations and *illusions. InFish's Clinical Psychopathologythe notion ofsensory deception is used in opposition to * sensory distortion (the latter term being used to denote one or more changes in the intensity, quality, or spatial form of a sense perception). Both groups of phenomena are themselves classified as * perceptual disturbances.

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