...physiological theory of conscious process is in agreement with Stout's doctrine of apperception as the process by which a mental system appropriates...neurons and systems of neurons, so that the complex path leads to a modified efferent outflow. The logical inference from the foregoing is that " all adaptation...

...at all, but a mere failure to apperceive. This would not be correct. We have defined apperception as the process by which a mental system appropriates...element or otherwise receives a fresh determination. Now, when the result is negative, there is, indeed, a failure to appropriate a new element, and so...

...all, but a mere failure to apperceive. This would not be correct. We have denned apperception as (he process by which a mental system appropriates a new...element or otherwise receives a fresh determination. Now, when the result is negative, there is, indeed, a failure to appropriate a new element, and so...

...understanding, interpretation, identifying, subsuming, and the like ; it is the process by which the mental system appropriates a new element, or otherwise receives a fresh determination. In almost every moment of waking life an apperceptive process is taking place : whenever an object is...

...faculty-Psychology. For its modern or Herbartian meaning we may take Mr. Stout's definition of Apperception as " the process by which a mental system appropriates...element, or otherwise receives a fresh determination." It is one case of blending, sometimes leading to the reproduction of a former context; but the term...

...found in Stout's " Analytical Psychology," Volume II, pages III167, where apperception is defined as " the process by which a mental system appropriates a new element, or receives a fresh determination." have made of them. The city child, to whom a fern is a bunch of green...

...cognition." With this, Mr. Stout so far agrees, but he seeks to add something. His definition runs "the process by which a mental system appropriates...element, or otherwise receives a fresh determination." 1 The final clause is introduced to indicate this author's distinction between what he calls anoetic...

...transforms their characteristics in the process of assimilation. Mr. Stout's definition of apperception is " the process by which a mental system appropriates...element, or otherwise receives a fresh determination." The essence of the process, and that to which I wish to call special attention, is that it is not a...

...determine and are determined by succeeding changes. From this point of view apperception, may be defined as the process by which a mental system appropriates...element, or otherwise receives a fresh determination. When an unsuccessful attempt is made to identify, classify, interpret, etc., there is a failure to...

...ERROR. 81 which he gives is wholly from the volitional standpoint : " Apperception, may be defined, as the process by which a mental system appropriates...element, or otherwise receives a fresh determination." (Page 112.) On page 113 he says: "Apprehend" means originally "I grasp." On page 114 he is explicit:...