When listening to your professor's lecture, interpreting the meaning of the professor's words is an example of
A) perception.
B) sensation.
C) assimilation.
D) accommodation.

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Perception is the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, such as the words spoken by the professor during a lecture. Sensation refers to the basic process of receiving sensory information from the environment. Assimilation and accommodation are terms associated with Piaget's theory of cognitive development and refer to the processes by which individuals incorporate new information into their pre-existing mental structures or modify their mental structures to accommodate new information, respectively. None of these processes directly relate to interpreting the meaning of spoken words during a lecture.

When Listening to Your Professor's Lecture, Interpreting the Meaning of the Professor's