apperception
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- noun
- /ˌæpərˈsɛpʃən/
- Specialized
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apercepción
- In psychology, apperception is the term used to describe how our past experiences affect our understanding of new experiences.
- Thematic Apperception
- Apperception Test
Examples
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The process of apperception helps us understand new ideas by connecting them to what we already know.
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Using a more structured approach, Murray (1943) devised the Thematic Apperception Test to analyze personality components from stories individuals constructed about ambiguous stimuli.
Academic text (1993) -
The primary strategy by which GRAV empowered the public was by training what might be called its critical apperception skills.
Academic text (2014) -
What we have in mind is the distinction that Leibniz frequently draws between 'perception' and 'apperception.'
Academic text (1998) -
While bias is present in all fieldwork, long field residence allows for clearer apperception because it permits a broader and deeper knowledge of local reality.
Academic text (1991) -
In performance, of course, these effects overlap, flow, and blend in ways that the audience will probably apprehend more than comprehend, but apperception is one of the ways the artistic effect of stage language works.
Academic text (1997) -
Two things are important here: First, Leibniz does not regard all perception as apperception, or conscious self-perception; and second, Leibniz thinks that there are souls which perceive without apperceiving.
Academic text (1998) -
Weiskopf-Joelson refers to each school of psychotherapy as a "perceptual house" since each perspective brings with it a distinct set of preconceptions and apperceptions that structure reality according to its a priori postulates and beliefs.
Academic text (2002) -
Teachers often promote apperception by associating new lessons with students' existing knowledge.
Synonyms
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Noticing things using your senses such as sight or hearing
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Fitting new ideas into what a person already knows
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A test where a person tells stories about pictures to show feelings and thoughts
How Integrated
Surface Forms
Morphology
apperception = perception (semi-transparent) = ap + percept + ion
The prefix 'ap-' suggests an additional layer of perception, but the specific psychological meaning is not immediately clear to all learners.
Etymology
The word apperception comes from Latin parts ad- ('to') and percipere ('take, perceive') and is from the same root as perceive. So apperception is like 'taking in' a new perception into what you already know, which is why it means interpreting new information using past experience.