apperceptive

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My apperceptive mass goes back 50 years when I was the bird-dog for Jack Kaplan, then worth over $100 million and denoted as a big boodle for a sole operator.

From Forbes • Mar. 30, 2015

Avoid saying anything which would suggest a model form of definition, as the type of definition which the child spontaneously chooses throws interesting light on the degree of maturity of the apperceptive processes.

From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

It is the synthetic, or apperceptive, activity of the mind that gives the “seven-league boots” to genius.

From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

The first story in a group is an apperceptive one; it secures the child's spontaneous attention because, through its plot, it touches his own life in some way.

From Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs by Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin

He had no apperceptive centres in his experience or his training to which your kind of religious teaching was related.

From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)