When you think of sensation and perception,you think of your home mail service.When the mail is delivered to your home,the postal worker puts it in your mailbox.You then take the various letters,magazines,and postcards and sit down to read them,deciding which is important and which is junk.In this scenario,the delivery of mail to your mailbox is analogous to __________.
A) perception
B) transduction
C) sensation
D) the peripheral nervous system

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In this analogy, the delivery of mail to the mailbox is similar to sensation, which is the process of detecting and receiving sensory information from the environment (in this case, the mail). The subsequent actions of reading and sorting through the mail correspond to perception, the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information to make meaningful sense of it. Transduction (converting sensory information into neural signals) and the peripheral nervous system (the nerves outside of the brain and spinal cord that transmit sensory information to the central nervous system) are not directly represented in this analogy.

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