Apperception vs. Perception — What's the Difference?

Apperception (from the Latin ad-, "to, toward" and percipere, "to perceive, gain, secure, learn, or feel") is any of several aspects of perception and consciousness in such fields as psychology, philosophy and epistemology.

Perception (from the Latin perceptio, meaning gathering or receiving) is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment.All perception involves signals that go through the nervous system, which in turn result from physical or chemical stimulation of the sensory system. For example, vision involves light striking the retina of the eye; smell is mediated by odor molecules; and hearing involves pressure waves.

Conscious perception with full awareness.

The process of perceiving something with the senses

The process of understanding by which newly observed qualities of an object are related to past experience or prior perceptions.

An instance of this

The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states, unifying past and present experiences; self-consciousness, perception that reflects upon itself.

The process or state of being aware of something

(uncountable) Psychological or mental perception; recognition.

Insight or knowledge gained by thinking

The general process or a particular act of mental assimilation of new experience into the totality of one's past experience.

The capacity for such insight or knowledge

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.

An insight or point of knowledge

The process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience

An interpretation or impression; an opinion or belief

The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.

Conscious understanding of something.

Vision (ability)

Acuity

(cognition) That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through fog, trying to understand if you see a small dog or a cat); also that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc.

The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.

The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; - distinguished from conception.

The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility.

An idea; a notion.

The representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept

A way of conceiving something;

The process of perceiving

Knowledge gained by perceiving;

Becoming aware of something via the senses