Apperception

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Conscious perception with full awareness.
  • n. The process of understanding by which newly observed qualities of an object are related to past experience.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • n. Psychological or mental perception; recognition.
  • n. The general process or a particular act of mental assimilation of new experience into the totality of one's past experience.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. That act of the mind by which it becomes conscious of its ideas as its own; perception (which see) with the added consciousness that it is “I” who perceive.
  • n. Hence, by a slight modification
  • n. With Kant and most English writers, an act of voluntary consciousness, accompanied with self-consciousness: especially in the phrase pure apperception.
  • n. In the psychology of Herbart (1776–1841), the coalescence of the remainder of a new isolated idea with an older one, by a modification of one or the other.
  • n. Apprehension; recognition.
  • n. In Wundt's psychology, the process whereby a perception or idea attains to clearness in consciousness; also, the introspective contents of this process, that is, the clear idea itself and the changes resulting in consciousness from the induction of the attentive state.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience
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