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 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.

From Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs by Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin

The apperceptive expectancy, practically nil in the reading of nonsense material, must be decidedly deficient in all poor reading.

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 Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

Thus the critical analysis must give a logical presentation of the apperceptive and associative processes of revival.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

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.

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 Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson