(n.) The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception.
Example Sentences:
(1) A retrospective evaluation of stories told to three Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) cards by children at risk isolated six characteristics that were associated with functioning six to 10 years later.
(2) The results of themotical apperceptive tests used in these cases were thoroughly analyzed by the author.
(3) Using a structured thematic apperception technique (the Tell-Me-A-Story [TEMAS] test) to measure attention to pictorial stimuli depicting characters, events, settings, and covert psychological conflicts, a study was conducted with 152 normal and 95 clinical Hispanic, Black, and White school-age children.
(4) In this case, computerized scoring of two very different tests (the Reiss Screen and the Apperceptive Personality Test) yielded very similar results.
(5) Also, the thematic apperception test and Rorschach test as well as electroencephalographic examinations have been carried out on many of the patients included in this study.
(6) Personality development as measured by Loevinger's Washington University Sentence Completion Test, The Friedman Developmental Level Scoring System for the Rorschach, The Urist Mutuality of Autonomy Scale, The Thematic Apperception Test, and indexes from a structured interview were able to discriminate between teenagers at high- and low-risk for pregnancy.
(7) Psychological tests (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Rorschach, Thematic Apperception Test, Sentence Completion, Figure Drawing, and Word Association) were performed and used as an independent check on the data derived from the interviews.
(8) Impairment of formal thought and language in schizophrenia are suggested to result from a developmental disorder pertaining to language and concept formation (apperception).
(9) A review of projective assessment, the use of human figure drawings, anatomically correct dolls and projective apperception testing is presented within the context of clinical assessment of child trauma.
(10) This study investigated the utility of the minority version of the Tell Me a Story (TEMAS) test, a thematic apperception technique for minorities and nonminorities, by discriminating public school and clinical Hispanic and Black children.
(11) A means was devised of assessing elderly individuals' responses to the Senior Apperception Test (SAT) that would discriminate emotionally-cognitively impaired from nonimpaired.
(12) This double dissociation conforms to the classical distinction between apperceptive and associative agnosia, and extends to the somesthetic modality the "double dissociation" between left and right hemispheric lesions and associative and apperceptive recognition disorders, which has been found in other modalities of agnosia.
(13) This study attempted to predict locus of control orientation from responses to the Thematic Apperception Test.
(14) This paper evaluated research concerning the synthesis or integration of information from Wechsler intelligence, Rorschach, and Thematic Apperception tests, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, and Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory in the process of personality assessment.
(15) The Sibling Thematic Apperception Test (S-TAT) was developed to elicit underlying feelings about the relationship, because traditional methods of assessment have failed to tap its negative qualities.
(16) The fact tha the 'maternal function', essential for growth in the early stage, is comprised of events which the baby either experiences or is lacking, such as bodily early contacts, being held in the arms and the quality of holding, eye to eye communication on which baby's apperception develops is underlined.
(17) The Tell Me a Story (TEMAS) Test is a thematic apperception technique composed of 23 chromatic pictures, depicting either minority or nonminority characters interacting in primarily urban and familial settings, and is scored for perceptual and cognitive style, affective state, and personality functioning.
(18) Alexithymic characteristics were examined in a sample of 30 patients fulfilling the DSM-III criteria for psychogenic pain disorder using an interviewer-rated scale (Beth Israel Hospital Psychosomatic Questionnaire), a self-rated scale (Toronto Alexithymia Scale) and a projective technique (Thematic Apperception Test).
(19) The concept of "average expectable apperception" is introduced.
(20) The complementary link of apperceptive agnosias with right-and associative agnosias with left-hemisphere lesions is an expression of this general principle in the posterior cortex.
Kantianism
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Kantism
Example Sentences:
(1) While finding themselves in substantial agreement with the various authors' premises, Walters and Ashwal identify four issues needing further clarification and discussion: the Kantian notion of means and ends, the distinction between human and personal life, the concept of brain life, and the concept of brain death.
(2) It is argued that Gilligan's theory of moral deliberation more faithfully reflects the nursing experience than Kohlberg's contractual, Kantian theory, which currently dominates the nursing literature.
(3) I contend that this doctrine is necessary not only for natural law absolutism, but also for Donagan's Kantianism and for Quinn's revised construal of the doctrine, and even for consequentialism, as bioethical implications of the doctrine make clear.
(4) That view is pitted against a liberal universalist one that sees us in some sense equally obligated to all human beings, from Bolton to Burundi - an idea that is associated with the universalist aspects of Christianity and Islam, with Kantian universalism and with left-wing internationalism.
(5) By contrast, Kantian absolutist theory, which derives from the principle that lawful freedom must not be violated, has a corollary--that it is a duty, where possible, to coerce those who try to violate lawful freedom--which makes superfluous many of the double-effect exceptions Boyle allows.
(6) It has been claimed that a Kantian, deontological ethics would necessarily rule out such research, since valid consent would be impossible.
(7) One cannot "apply" theories like Kantianism or consequentialism to get solutions to practical moral problems unless one knows which theory is correct, and that is a metaethical question over which there is no consensus.
(8) This paper attacks the Kantian conception of mortality that predominates in our society and the rationalist educational strategies that flow from it.
(9) I fully reject the Kantian universalizability principle that underlies so much of contemporary moral discussion.
(10) In particular, the proper interpretation of the Kantian injunction against treating persons as means only takes on a different light in the context of special relationships.
(11) Redmon argues that there are some conditions in which nontherapeutic research with children can be justified on Kantian grounds.
(12) Pratchett’s character Death “is profoundly Kantian,” Held continued.
(13) This essay presents an exercise in trying to apply Kantian philosophy to aesthetic plastic surgery.
(14) Dreams as premonitions of disease have been reported since the classical era, and hypnagogic hallucinations, so named by Alfred Maury and viewed as "psychosensory hallucinations" by Baillarger in the 1840s (extending the Kantian definition of the madman as a "waking dreamer"), have been reported since the Renaissance.
(15) Deontologists, arguing from the Kantian principles of moral duty and respect for persons, hold that it is wrong to subject anyone to the risks of research that is not designed for the subject's benefit.
(16) After examining the relevance of Kantian, utilitarian, and Rawlsian ethical positions, the author contends that an effective governmental policy, capable of enforcement and acceptance by the public, must utilize the strengths of each philosophy and reflect the pragmatism of American society.
(17) The claim of greater worth is considered and criticized from both utilitarian and Kantian perspectives, and the inference from superior worth to being entitled to exploit one's inferiors is also criticized.
(18) It resembles more a Hobbesian vision than anything approaching a Kantian rule-based order.
(19) It is further explained how the Kantism temporal mode of perceiving experience can be related to the left hemisphere while the Kantian spatial mode of perceiving experience can be related to the right hemisphere.
(20) Although avowedly atheoretical, Kraepelin thus managed to construct (influenced by Kahlbaum and Wundt) an empirical support for his Kantian categorization of the psychoses.