Meaning and example
the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience
The passage used "apperception" to mean the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of -0.424 places apperception in the very rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 33.4% of people in the source dataset.
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Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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