A Psychologist Who Asked You to Make a Series of Judgments

question 14

Multiple Choice

A psychologist who asked you to make a series of judgments to determine whether or not a light was present in an unlit room would be trying to assess your ________ for perceiving light.

• A) psychometric function
• B) absolute threshold
• C) response bias
• D) just noticeable difference (jnd)

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