What is "apperceiving"

Usage examples of "apperceiving".

For the educator, therefore, psychology may be limited to a study of the definite states of consciousness which arise through an apperceiving act of attention, that is, to our states of experience and the processes connected therewith.

He has misunderstood because his mind was not prepared by making the proper apperceiving ideas explicit.

Further, the apperceiving ideas become more interesting to the pupil, when he finds that he can use them in the conquest of new fields.

In an act of memory, therefore, the new presentation, like all new presentations, must be interpreted in terms of past experience, or by an apperceiving act of attention.

When, on the way down the street, for instance, impressions are received from a passing form, and a resulting act of apperceiving attention, besides reading meaning into them, awakens a sense of familiarity, the face is recognized as one seen on a former occasion.

In the interaction between the old and new the latter then become the apperceiving forces.

So strong is the apperceiving force of familiar notions that they drag far-distant scenes in geography and history into the home neighborhood and locate them there.

According to this we see and hear not only with the eye and ear, but quite as much with the help of our present knowledge, with the apperceiving content of the mind.

In the presence of these they now make manifest their apperceiving power.

With Herbart, the ideas gained through experience are the apperceiving power in interpreting new things.