Apperceptive

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining or relating to, or of the nature of, apperception.
  • In current psychology: characterized by clearness, or by the state of attention;
  • resulting from or pertaining to the psychological process of apperception.
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  • adjective. perceptive
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  • adjective. able to relate new percepts to past experience
  • Word Usage
    "The association theory must thus be given up in favor of an 'action-theory' [1] which combines the consistency of phenomenalistic explanation with a full acknowledgment of the so-called apperceptive processes; it avoids thus the deficiency of associationism and the logical inconsistency of apperceptionism."
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