Definition of apperception in English:
apperception
noun apəˈsɛpʃ(ə)nˌæpərˈsɛpʃ(ə)n
mass nounPsychology dated The mental process by which a person makes sense of an idea by assimilating it to the body of ideas he or she already possesses.
Example sentencesExamples
- This could throw additional light upon the unconscious psychodynamic processes governing the perception and apperception, both sensory and extrasensory, of potentially threatening stimuli.
- Performances provide another such context as audiences are brought together in a heightened awareness of sharing patterns of embodied apperception.
- Where people differ is in the way that each of them typically makes use of the equipment; and this typical mode of apperception and responsiveness is what is meant in psychology by their type.
- This apperception is indispensable because in the past non-state actors have been mere critics instead of playing their rightful role as eulogistic vehicles in the course of development.
- From seashore strands to moors and mountains, from sand specks and protozoa to all-embracing panoramas, knowing and feeling were conjoined, not conflicting, modes of apperception.
Derivatives
adjective apəˈsɛptɪv
Psychology dated A common symptom of apperceptive visual agnosia is prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize faces.
Example sentencesExamples
- This is the earlier form of apperceptive analysis and rises directly from associations.
- There is a further analogy in how you incorporate what you learn into your entire apperceptive mass.
- It is an apperceptive activity - both active and passive.
- In fact, the distinction between apperceptive and associative agnosia has several limitations.
Origin
Mid 18th century: from French aperception or modern Latin aperceptio(n-), from Latin ad- 'to' + percipere 'perceive'.
Definition of apperception in US English:
apperception
nounˌæpərˈsɛpʃ(ə)nˌapərˈsepSH(ə)n
Psychology dated 1The mental process by which a person makes sense of an idea by assimilating it to the body of ideas he or she already possesses.
Example sentencesExamples
- Performances provide another such context as audiences are brought together in a heightened awareness of sharing patterns of embodied apperception.
- This apperception is indispensable because in the past non-state actors have been mere critics instead of playing their rightful role as eulogistic vehicles in the course of development.
- Where people differ is in the way that each of them typically makes use of the equipment; and this typical mode of apperception and responsiveness is what is meant in psychology by their type.
- From seashore strands to moors and mountains, from sand specks and protozoa to all-embracing panoramas, knowing and feeling were conjoined, not conflicting, modes of apperception.
- This could throw additional light upon the unconscious psychodynamic processes governing the perception and apperception, both sensory and extrasensory, of potentially threatening stimuli.
- 1.1 Fully conscious perception.
an immediate apperception of a unity lying beyond
Example sentencesExamples
- There can be no question of an ultimate justification of morality in the sense of a transcendental deduction of the moral law in terms of the ‘I think’ and the transcendental unity of apperception.
- In the sabbath, we find a foretaste and an apperception of the common good in the rest we receive for ourselves and the rest we ensure for others.
- Self-consciousness, or the subject of the transcendental unity of apperception, was likewise impervious to cognition from the Kantian standpoint.
- These kinds of mental acts seem to be less naturally treated as atomic elements in a bundle, bound by a passive unity of apperception.
- He was the first to distinguish explicitly between perception and apperception, i.e., roughly between awareness and self-awareness.
Origin
Mid 18th century: from French aperception or modern Latin aperceptio(n-), from Latin ad- ‘to’ + percipere ‘perceive’.