Question

You are studying in your dorm room, but your neighbor is blasting the television in the adjacent room. When you gently request that your neighbor turn the volume down until you cannot hear it, you are asking your neighbor to make the volume less than your ____________ for hearing

Answer 1

Answer:

Absolute Threshold.

Explanation:

Absolute threshold is the where it lands us, and it is commonly explained as the smallest amount of a stimulus that a person can detect half the time. Also, it is important to realize that when a stimulus is at such a low level participants might not be able to detect it in every instance. Because of this, the absolute threshold is usually defined as the lowest level of a stimulus that people can detect at least half of the time. In our previous example, this would mean that the participants would need to detect the lowest level of the light stimulus at least 50% of the time.