apperceptive
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My apperceptive mass goes back 50 years when I was the bird-dog for Jack Kaplan, then worth over $100 million and denoted as a big boodle for a sole operator.
From Forbes ● Mar. 30, 2015
The second story in each group makes an appeal to the child's reasoning powers; having secured his attention through the apperceptive story, the story-teller now takes the child a-field, mentally, and secures his voluntary attention.
From Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
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.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
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.
From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
Active attitude and the concept, 128 Analysis, 111-115, 152 f.; in education, 112 Apperception, 199; apperceptive masses, 203 Application, 129 f.,
From How We Think by John Dewey
