Perception is the __________.
A. process by which people take all the sensations they experience at any given moment and interpret them in some meaningful fashion
B. action of physical stimuli on receptors, leading to sensations
C. interpretation of memory based on selective attention
D. act of selective attention from sensory storage
Answer: A
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