apperception

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Learning involves apperception, and apperception is always giving a meaning to new presentations by actively bringing old knowledge to bear upon them.

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  1. noun Conscious perception with full awareness.
  2. noun The process of understanding by which newly observed qualities of an object are related to past experience.

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  1. New Latin apperceptiō, apperceptiōn- : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin perceptiō, perception; see perception.

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  1. from New Latin apperceptio(n-) (Leibnitz), from Late Latin *appercipere, past participle *apperceptus: see apperceive and perception.
 

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/æpərˈsɛpʃən/
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