Assimilation
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From A Cyclopedia of Education, edited by Paul Monroe, Ph.D. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911, vol. I, p. 248).
Assimilation
- Charles A. Judd (Ph.D., LL.D., Professor and Director of the School of Education, University of Chicago)
Used in technical psychology to describe a phase of perception whereby present experiences are related to earlier experiences and so modified as to conform in character to the earlier experiences. Thus if one hears a sound and by a process of association relates it to a word which is familiar in his experience, the present sound will take on a form similar to the earlier sound, even though its present form may be somewhat different. This appears most clearly when we misunderstand a word by virtue of the modification of the present sound through earlier experiences.
C.H. J.
References
- Wundt. Outlines of Psychology, tr, by C. H. Judd. (Leipzig, 1897.)
