apperception
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Under the first head, it means the growth of a central unity of apperception.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
"This question is for the real Haslop: Have you ever been put through a Rorschach, thematic apperception or free association test?"
From Problem on Balak by Aycock, Roger D.
By his development of the doctrine of apperception he took psychology forever beyond the old associationism which had ceased to be fruitful.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
The whole intelligent life of man is, consciously or unconsciously, a process of apperception, inasmuch as every act of attention involves the appercipient process.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
It follows naturally from the principle of apperception: the interpretation of the unknown in terms of the known; the extension of accumulated experience to the interpretation of new experiences.
From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.
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