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apperception

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ap·per·cep·tion  (pr-spshn)
n.
1. Conscious perception with full awareness.
2. The process of understanding by which newly observed qualities of an object are related to past experience.
[New Latin appercepti, apperceptin- : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin percepti, perception; see perception.]
apper·ceptive (-sptv) adj.
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Noun1.apperception - the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience
basic cognitive process - cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge


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A research version of the Thematic Apperception Test (Morgan & Murray, 1935) was used to measure implicit social motives.
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The tight weave of the project never loosens its grip on visitors, or allows them to yield attention to apperception.
Speak, memory: Esther Da Costa Meyer on Peter Eisenman's Holocaust ... by Da Costa Meyer, Esther / Artforum International
He sought to articulate the new art's relationship to human apperception, by which he presumably meant something akin to intuitive self-consciousness or subconscious self-awareness--our sense of ourselves, to put it simplistically.
The Passion of cinema by Monserrate, Carey / Cross Currents
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