Selecting the important features of a complex environment, focusing on the salient aspects of those features, identifying those features, and discriminating them from others is known as ______.

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Perception involves the processes of selecting, organizing, and interpreting sensory information, which enables us to recognize meaningful objects and events in our environment. Sensation is the process of sensing our environment through touch, taste, sight, sound, and smell. Perception goes beyond these sensations to process the meanings behind these sensory inputs.

Selecting the Important Features of a Complex Environment, Focusing on the Salient