What is perception?

a. Perception is the immediate registration of information by the sensory receptors.
b. Perception uses previous knowledge to gather and interpret the stimuli registered by the senses.
c. Perception involves only unprocessed sensory information.
d. Perception requires complex problem solving.


Ans: b

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