Alice is walking home from school when she notices a change in the weather. She hears thunder in the distance, sees lightning and dark clouds approaching, feels the wet breeze of an approaching storm, and even smells the difference in the wind from the storm. Alice is able to organize all of these sensory cues into a meaningful idea due to her powers of ________.
A) intuition
B) sensation
C) perception
D) sensory acuity

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Perception involves taking in sensory information and interpreting it in a meaningful way. Alice is able to make sense of the sensory cues she is experiencing, which is an example of perception. Therefore, C is the best choice. A) Intuition is a feeling or hunch about something without conscious reasoning, and there is no evidence that Alice's interpretation is based on this. B) Sensation is the process of detecting stimuli from our environment, but it does not necessarily involve organizing it into a meaningful idea. D) Sensory acuity refers to the ability to detect fine differences between stimuli, but it is not directly relevant to Alice's ability to organize her sensory cues.

Alice Is Walking Home from School When She Notices a Change