Definition of Apperceptive

1. Adjective. Able to relate new percepts to past experience.

Similar to: Perceptive

Definition of Apperceptive

1. Adjective. perceptive ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Apperceptive

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Apperceptive

1. Relating to, involved in, or capable of apperception. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apperceptive

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Literary usage of Apperceptive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Outlines of Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt, Charles Hubbard Judd (1902)
"In trying to account for the essential attributes of apperceptive ... The most elementary apperceptive function is that of relating two psychical contents ..."

2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"... coincides in the main, but not altogether, with the apperceptive process. Relation to the self is, on this view, involved in apperception because, ..."

3. An Introduction to Herbart's Science and Practice of Education by Henry M. Felkin, Emmie Felkin (1900)
"Involuntary attention he subdivides into primitive and apperceptive. If I hear a shot when absorbed in work, my Involuntary . . . primitive thoughts vanish ..."

4. Analytic Psychology by George Frederick Stout (1918)
"The apperceptive activity of one group communicates to others a wave of ... This process by which a mental group in the exercise of its apperceptive ..."

5. The Teacher's Handbook of Psychology by James Sully (1910)
"apperceptive Systems. In discussing associative groups in the last section, we spoke as though their coherence were due solely to the greater relative ..."

6. The Educative Process by William Chandler Bagley (1905)
"CHAPTER V THE NEEDS OF THE ORGANISM AS DETERMINING APPERCEPTION: DEGREES OF APPERCEPTION AND apperceptive SYSTEMS i. MIND interprets impressions from the ..."

7. The Psychological Principles of Education: A Study in the Science of Education by Herman Harrell Horne (1908)
"... CHAPTER IX THE EDUCATIONAL USES OF THE apperceptive PROCESS OWING to the influence of Herbart on the psychological literature written for teachers, ..."

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