Crossword clues for apperception
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apperception \Ap`per*cep"tion\, n. [Pref. ad- + perception: cf.
F. apperception.] (Metaph.)
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.
--Leibnitz.
Reid.
This feeling has been called by philosophers the
apperception or consciousness of our own existence.
--Sir W.
Hamilton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1753, from French aperception (17c.), from German Apperzeption (or Latin apperceptionem), coined by German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) as noun corresponding to French apercevoir "perceive, notice, become aware of" (11c., from Latin ad "to" (see ad-) + percipere; see perceive) on analogy of Perzeption/percevoir.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable psychology and philosophy especially Kantianism English) 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. 2 (context uncountable English) Psychological or mental perception; recognition. 3 (context countable psychology English) The general process or a particular act of mental assimilation of new experience into the totality of one's past experience.
WordNet
n. the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience
Wikipedia
Apperception (from the Latin ad-, "to, toward" and percipere, "to perceive, gain, secure, learn, or feel") is any of several aspects of perception and consciousness in such fields as psychology, philosophy and epistemology.
Usage examples of "apperception".
Here evidently the child, true to the law of apperception, had interpreted, or rather misinterpreted, the words of the teacher, by means of the only ideas in his possession which seemed to fit the uttered sounds.
On the whole, therefore, the text-book seems more likely to meet the conditions of the laws of apperception and self-activity, than would the lecture method.
Learning involves apperception, and apperception is always giving a meaning to new presentations by actively bringing old knowledge to bear upon them.
According to the principle of apperception, the new experience must organize itself with whatever thoughts and feelings are now occupying consciousness.
It is a clumsy and distorted application of the principle of apperception, of going from the known to the unknown.
In the discussion of apperception in the following chapter we shall see that, in the process of gaining knowledge, our acquired ideas and concepts play a most important role.
Every hour of school labor illustrates the value of apperception and teachers should find in it a constant antidote to faulty methods.
There is an unconscious employment of apperception in the practical affairs of life that is of interest.
The outcome of a successful act of apperception is always a feeling of pleasure, or at least of interest.
When the principle of apperception is fully applied in teaching, the progress from one point to another is so gradual and clear that it gives pleasure.
On the contrary, when apperception is violated, and new knowledge is only half understood and assimilated there can be but little feeling of satisfaction.
To this pleasurable feeling is easily added the effort, at favorable opportunity, to reproduce the product of the apperception, to supplement and deepen it, to unite it to other ideas, and so further to extend certain chains of thought.
If we regard the acquired knowledge as the objective result of apperception, interest must be regarded as the subjective side.
But viewed in the light of apperception, acquired knowledge should be retained and used, for it unlocks the door to more knowledge.
We observed first what essential services apperception performs for the human mind in the acquisition of new ideas, and for what an extraordinary easement and unburdening the acquiring soul is indebted to it.