Question

Amadi is listening to John play the guitar. When John plays a note, the vibrations of the air are picked up by auditory receptors in his ear and sent to the brain. In Amadi’s brain, the information from the receptors is analyzed to produce the experience of a musical note. The pickup of information by receptors in the ear is ____________; the processing to produce the experience of a musical note is ____________.

Answer 1

Answer:

Sensation

Perception

Explanation:

Sensations comes from the input from external environment that is obtained by sensory receptor and detected.

Sensory receptors are neurons in the body that respond to different stimulus

The ability of the receptor to pick up the noted and detect it is called sensation

Perception is the processing of the information(Sensation) received by the brain in an organized and structured way.

While the ability of the brain to process the noted that is picked up by sensory reception into an organised meaning is perception.

The way individual perceives is different because of the way our brains process information.