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theoretical approaches  

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  • 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]

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