Psychologists designate by the term "the apperceptive mass" the accumulated previous experiences, prejudices, temperament, inclination and desires which serve to modify the new perception or idea.
We can know things only in terms of our "apperceptive mass," but that does not mean that things exist only by virtue of our apperceptive mass.
It is reasonable to suppose that in the subnormal mind the habitual common associations are less firmly fixed, thus diminishing the effectiveness of the ever-changing apperceptive expectancy.
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.
The apperceptive expectancy, practically nil in the reading of nonsense material, must be decidedly deficient in all poor reading.
This test, because it throws such interesting light on the maturity of the child's apperceptive processes, is one of the most valuable of all.
Influence of apperceptivemasses and of methodology.
The general idea derived from the assimilation of experiences is the apperceptive mass that converts sense-stimulation into cognition: when unconscious Romanes called it a aEurooerecept.
But being entirely imaginary, its supposed agency can only satisfy the imagination by the assimilation of each intervention by the animistic apperceptive mass.
It represents time occupied with the reproduction of erroneous apperceptive images--apperceptive errors.
In other cases, the apperceptive errors may take the form of a blended reaction to two or more cues, more or less perfectly achieved.
The accessory wish-cue wrought its effect coetaneously, during the apperceptive delay.
Southard obtained his differentiations purely from pathological cases or whether, accepting Shand or Pound or both, using their distinctions as apperceptive organs, he unconsciously reads their distinctions into his cases.
Meantime, during the apperceptive delay, the energy spills over into less appropriate neurograms, albeit they are more quickly mobilized, with the result of evoking bizarre imagery; what I have called trial apperceptions.
Going further with psychological considerations it is to be asserted that Inez showed marked lack of normal apperceptive ability in not appreciating the necessarily unfavorable results of her own lying.
Given a very simple test which required some apperceptive ability, he did fairly well.
They based their opinion upon the fact that she showed so little apperceptive ability, so little judgment in relating the results of her continual lying to its necessary effect upon her career.
We found evidence of lack of good apperceptive powers and the history of the case led us to see clearly that she had been just recently in a very unstable, if not quite confusional mental condition.
Organized nature the source of apperceptive forms; example of sculpture.
But if instead there is disappointment, if this particular queen is an ugly one, although perhaps she might have pleased as a witch, this is because the apperceptive form and the impression give a cerebral discord.
The beauty of landscape, the forms of religion and science, the types of human nature itself, are due to this apperceptive gift.
Nature, its organization the source of apperceptive forms, 152 et seq.
The wide plain, the river hurrying between green banks--no apperceptive background fails thus far in the picture.
If you can do this you will arrive at an understanding of apperceptive background through its elimination.
You will realize, that all that is in the back of your mind, stored there by its previous acquaintance with other printed pages, makes up the apperceptive background by which you get a conception of this page.
In a matter where custom is so ingrained and supported by a constant apperceptive illusion, there is little hope of making thought suddenly exact, or exact language not paradoxical.
When a designer, following his own automatic impulse, conventionalises a form, he makes a legitimate exchange, substituting fidelity to his apperceptive instincts for fidelity to his external impressions.
In other words, it is the medium that asserts itself; the apperceptive powers indulge their private humours, and neglect the office to which they were assigned once for all by their cognitive essence.
Is there not, we may ask, some ideal form of discourse in which apperceptive life could be engaged with all its volume and transmuting power, and in which at the same time no misrepresentation should be involved?
Indefiniteness in the apperceptive masses results in the even movement of apperception.
The development of apperceptive capacity is not so difficult for us, inasmuch as our problem is not to prepare our subject for life, but for one present purpose.
The mistake does not lie in the defective activity of the senses so much as in the fact that an apperceptive idea is substituted for the perceptive view.
Let us therefore call only those generally passive combination processes associations, and the active ones apperceptive combinations, or for shortness apperceptions.
We see this creative and yet absolutely lawful nature of psychical phenomena best of all in apperceptive combinations, and for a long time it has been silently recognised in their case.
What gives its psychical value to a feeling arising from any objective content of consciousness is not its connection with consciousness, but the fact that it is closely bound up with the apperceptive processes.
Here we meet clearly the two motives which raise pure associations to apperceptive combinations by means of the impulses that lie in the association itself.
Nowhere can we see so clearly this rise of apperceptive combinations out of association as in spoken thought, the region of mental activity which is more than any other open to us in its objective forms.
We can by means of the different stages of the development of speech follow that gradual transition of associative into apperceptive processes of consciousness from step to step.
When nature has attained a firm apperceptive basis through imitation of primitive industrial processes, and has obtained a historical background, then it may properly be further reinforced by literary reference.
It is, in modern terms, an apperceptive basis for all instruction.
The feeling of interest, which we have emphasized so much, is chiefly, if not wholly, dependent upon apperceptive conditions.
This apperceptive power is of vast importance in practical life as it leads to quick judgment and action, when personal examinations into details would be impossible.
The laws of association draw the feelings as much as the intellectual states into apperceptive acts.
The choice of suitable wholes with which to begin is based upon the child's interest and apperceptive powers.
The story, The Holiday, opens the program with its apperceptive appeal, showing the dependence of the home upon the industrial life of the community and the possibility of a child's coöperation in it.
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.
It is his strength that he recognizes that an apperceptive unity interpreting sensations through categories which constitute the synthetic content of self-consciousness is indispensable to experience.
Dewey realizes that his act of intelligence is similar to Kant's 'apperceptive unity.
By means of this interweaving, the stimulation of the apperceptive element transmits itself to the remaining elements of the association complex.
Thus the critical analysis must give a logical presentation of the apperceptive and associative processes of revival.
He showed the need of correlation of studies, and of apperceptive centres of feeling and thought in order to comprehend, and assimilate, and transform into definite power the knowledge and thought that is brought to our minds.
Dickens emphasized the fact that the lack of apperceptive centres of an improper kind is a great advantage.
Dickens makes a strong contrast between the condition of the mental and spiritual apperceptive centres in the city boy as compared with the country boy, in a conversation between Phil Squod and Mr. George.
Phil's answer is intended to indicate the lack of even mathematical power in those who, like Phil, never had any training of the imagination, nor any other training to define their apperceptive centres of number beyond ten.
Hugh, the splendid young animal who was John Willet's stable boy in Barnaby Rudge, was as deficient of most intellectual and spiritual apperceptive centres as poor Jo.
How life in any stage might be filled with richness and joy, if imaginations were stored with apperceptive elements and allowed to reconstruct the universe in our fancies!
The absolute necessity for fixing apperceptive centres of emotion and thought in the lives of children by experience is shown in the case of Neville Landless in Edwin Drood.
Perfect freedom can not be developed in a soul filled with the apperceptive experiences of tyranny.
The highest work of schools, colleges, and universities is to fill the lives of men and women with the apperceptive centres of the community ideal.
When it becomes so the law is wrong and it makes the child wrong, and produces the apperceptive centres of anarchy in feeling and thought out of the very elements that should have produced joyous co-operation.
In all the apperceptiveoperations of the mind, a certain general law makes itself felt,--the law of economy.
Thus, in biology, we used to have interminable discussion as to whether certain single-celled organisms were animals or vegetables, until Haeckel introduced the new apperceptive name of Protista, which ended the disputes.
Now the "apperceptive basis" of material furnished by teacher and text-book should be found, as far as possible, in what the learner has derived from more direct forms of his own experience.
Somehow "apperceptive masses" are stirred that will assist in getting hold of the new subject.
Such an apperceptive revival, or re-presentation of past experience, because it includes merely a representation of mental images, but fails to relate them to the past, cannot be classed as an act of memory.
The apperceptive process of interpreting the new by selecting and relating elements of former experience, or the process of analysis-synthesis, is universal in learning.
Memory, therefore, is a special mode of the apperceptive process of learning, and includes, in addition to the interpreting of the new through the old, a belief that there is an identity between the old and the new.
The interests and needs of the individual reflect themselves largely in his apperceptive tendencies.
While, however, the mere revival of old knowledge in the apperceptive process does not constitute an act of memory, memory is itself only a special phase of the apperceptive process.
In the lesson outlined above, the pupil finds a problem in the very first word John, and adjusts himself thereto in a more or less perfect way by an apperceptive process involving both a selecting and a relating of ideas.
Feelings and interest, therefore, as well as knowledge, dominate the apperceptive process.
These characteristics, therefore, which enter into a definite knowledge of the object, do not come out of the object by a mere mechanical process of analysis, but are rather read into the object by the apperceptive process.
Imagination is thus an apperceptive process by which we construct a mental representation of an object without any necessary reference to its actual existence in time.
The fourfold arrangement of the matter, however, may let the teacher see more fully the children's mental attitude, and thus enable him to direct them intelligently through the apperceptive process.
Since curiosity depends upon novelty, it is evident that sensuous should ultimately give place to apperceptive curiosity.
