Threshold effect: The term threshold effect is defined as a phenomenon that experiences a radical and sudden change that generally occurs after a remarkable quantitative limit which is referred to as a threshold. It often refers to the renormalization group i.e, the threshold effect.
Threshold refers to the minimum number of a population to get benefited with something in a particular area.
In the question above, the given scenario is an example of a threshold effect.
Answer: d. Josh, who has just been told he has cancer and whose wife announces she is leaving him when he tells her announces she is leaving him when he tells her the news
Explanation: If the child knows that a book is the one object and the child has just learned a new word, the child will associate the new word with the unfamiliar green onion as it is an object the child has never seen before.