congenital character

a character or trait that is present at birth. It may be hereditary or result from the influence of factors experienced during fetal development or delivery.

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Psychology term of the day

May 10th 2024

object-superiority effect

in visual perception tasks, the finding that judgments about a briefly presented line are made more efficiently when the line is part of a drawing of a three-dimensional object than when it is part of a two-dimensional figure. See configural superiority effect; word-superiority effect.