apperceptive
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9.9
- adjective
- /ˌæpərˈsɛptɪv/
- Specialized
- Such people are rarely understood in happy societies, but there they became useful; their explanations and advice proved accurate and were transmitted to others joining the network of this apperceptive heritage.
- Apperceptive Personality Test
- Apperceptive Personality
Examples
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When learning a new language, effective communication relies heavily on apperceptive processes that connect past knowledge with new vocabulary.
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Instead, Masotta saw in Warhol and others a model for art, via apperceptive experience, to train the viewer to look and think critically.
Academic text (2014) -
The realists insisted that the photograph approximate the "apperceptive level of the average city dweller."
Academic text (2000) -
Specifically, it is expected that on the Draw A Person Questionnaire, alcoholics will, as they did on the Apperceptive Personality Test in the earlier study, more frequently use denial and more frequently demean their characters than normal controls will.
Academic text (1996) -
There are two types of agnosia that have to do with deficits in visual recognition: apperceptive agnosia and associative agnosia.
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Patients with associative agnosia retain the ability to group local aspects into a perceptual whole; however, if asked to draw the same image that they have perceived from memory, the patient with apperceptive agnosia would be unable to do so.
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To understand complex subjects, students must use their apperceptive skills to relate new information to what they already know.
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His ability to make connections in conversations demonstrated a strong apperceptive nature, as he easily related stories from his life to new ideas.
Synonyms
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Quick to notice or understand small details and meaning
Antonyms
How Perceptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
apperceptive = apperception (opaque) = apperception + ive
Although formed by the usual suffixation from 'apperception', that base is a technical psychological term and knowledge of 'perceive' alone will not let a B1 learner infer the specialized meaning.
Etymology
The word apperceptive comes from the parts ap- meaning 'to' and perceive meaning 'to notice or understand', and it is like the familiar word perceptive. So, an apperceptive person notices new information by connecting it to what they already know.