You smell a flower. While receptors in your nose register a stimulus, the actual process of recognizing the stimulus as a flower's fragrance and interpreting it as pleasant is known as perception.

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Perception refers to the process of interpreting and recognizing sensory information, including identifying and assigning meaning to a particular stimulus. In this case, the act of recognizing the fragrance as that of a flower and interpreting it as pleasant involves the process of perception.

You Smell a Flower