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Definition of Apperception
1. Noun. The process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience.
Definition of Apperception
1. n. The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception.
Definition of Apperception
1. Noun. (uncountable psychology and philosophy especially Kantianism) The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states, unifying past and present experiences; self-consciousness, perception that reflects upon itself. ¹
2. Noun. Psychological or mental perception; recognition. ¹
3. Noun. (countable psychology) The general process or a particular act of mental assimilation of new experience into the totality of one's past experience. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Apperception
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Literary usage of Apperception
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"(OFS-JMB) Leibnitz, who introduced the concept of apperception into philosophy,
understood by it i he apprehension of an object as distinguished from and ..."
2. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1896)
"SOME REMARKS UPON apperception. BY J. KODIS, Chicago. The great significance
which the conception of apperception has obtained in modern psychology ..."
3. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1901)
"Of tiie Originally Synthetical Unity of apperception' The / think must accompany
... I call it pure apperception, in order to distinguish it from empirical; ..."
4. Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals by William James (1900)
"apperception 'apperception' is a word which cuts a great figure in the pedagogics
of the present day. Read, for example, this advertisement of a certain ..."
5. Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals by William James (1906)
"For an explanation of apperception see Blank's PSYCHOLOGY, ... The difference
between Perception and apperception is explained for the teacher in the ..."
6. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1897)
"This is in a few words his doctrine of apperception. Probably many a good teacher,
not acquainted with apperception, already has been struggling to arouse ..."
7. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1918)
"If, then, Titchener intends " apperception " to be in any respect equivalent to
awareness, it becomes immediately impossible that " apperception " should be ..."
8. Psychological Principles by James Ward (1919)
"The term apperception, which we are now to consider, was introduced by Leibniz
... apperception is for him the self- consciousness that appropriates all my ..."
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