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Apperception

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apperception /ap·per·cep·tion/ (ap?er-sep´shun) the process of receiving, appreciating, and interpreting sensory impressions.
ap·per·cep·tion (pr-spshn)
n.
1. Conscious perception with full awareness. Also called comprehension.
2. The process of understanding by which newly observed qualities of an object are related to past experience.
apper·ceptive (-sptv) adj.
Apperception
The process of understanding through linkage with previous experience.
Mentioned in: Thematic Apperception Test
apperception Psychiatry Perception modified by personal emotions, memories, biases


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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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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.
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