aufgaben.
/ˈaʊfɡabə/ A task, an assignment; used esp. in Psychology. Cf. task n.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > [noun] > an undertaking > thing(s) to be done > a (difficult) task
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > test of mental ability > [noun] > task in test
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1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience xvi. 389 The notion is thoroughly characteristic of the mystical level, and the Aufgabe of making it articulate was surely set to Hegel's intellect by mystical feeling.
1909 W. James Pluralistic Universe vi. 238 This amount is the datum or gabe which reality feeds out to our intellectual faculty; but our intellect makes of it a task or aufgabe.
1917 M. A. May in Arch. Psychol. xxxix. 2 Aufgabe..There are two gross meanings: (1) The problem set by the experimenter, the instructions given, and (2) the problem understood and actualized by the observer or subject.
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