When you see the bright color and round shape of a tomato on the vine in your vegetable garden, smell its sun-warmed fragrance, hear the buzzing of a nearby bee, feel the velvety texture of its skin, and taste the flavor as you bite into it, your process of receiving this stimulus energy from the environment is called
A) sensation.
B) selective attention.
C) perception.
D) cognition.

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Sensation refers to the process of receiving stimulus energy from the environment through our sensory organs (in this case, the sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste of the tomato) and transmitting it to the brain for further processing. Selective attention is the ability to focus on a particular stimulus while ignoring others, cognition refers to the mental processes of thinking, learning, and remembering, and perception is the process of interpreting and organizing sensory information into meaningful experiences.

When You See the Bright Color and Round Shape of a Tomato