Noreen gazes out at the city lights from her 23rd floor apartment;Jonah feels a stinging pain after falling from his bike and scraping his elbow;Maher hears the loud wail of sirens outside his dorm room window.The process that allows Noreen,Jonah,and Maher to detect these external or internal stimuli is termed ____.

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Sensation is the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive stimulus energies from our environment or our body. In this scenario, Noreen, Jonah, and Maher are able to detect external stimuli (city lights, pain, sirens) through their sensory receptors and nervous system, which is the process of sensation. Transduction is the conversion of physical energy into neural impulses, perception is the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, and adaptation is a change in sensitivity to stimuli over time.

Noreen Gazes Out at the City Lights from Her 23rd