While walking barefoot on the beach, the physical pain one experiences when stepping on a jellyfish most accurately exemplifies

A) sensation.
B) perception.
C) incubation.
D) photoreception.

Sensation refers to the physical experience of a stimulus in the environment, such as the pain of stepping on a jellyfish. Perception, on the other hand, involves the interpretation and meaning assigned to that sensation. Incubation is a term used in biology to refer to the process of growing or developing, and photoreception refers specifically to the sensation of light by cells in the eye.