You are studying in your dorm room, but your neighbor is blasting the television in the adjacent room. When you gently request t
hat your neighbor turn the volume down until you cannot hear it, you are asking your neighbor to make the volume less than your:_______. a. absolute threshold.
b. difference threshold.
c. minimum transduction level.
d. basilar level.
The absolute threshold is described as the minimal perceptible level of a stimulus. In the example, the threshold is auditory.
A common way of measuring one's hearing absolute threshold is to gradually increase a sound frequence until the person starts perceiving the sound. However, the stimulus must be identified at least 50% of the time.
Most people's absolute thresholds decline with age.
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