You Are Seated in the Lab and I Place Two

question 21

Multiple Choice

You are seated in the lab and I place two sticks side by side exactly two feet in front of you.I start moving one of the sticks very,very slowly until you tell me that it looks farther away than the other.I am demonstrating what principle?

• A) Just-noticeable difference
• B) Absolute threshold
• C) Subliminal stimulation
• D) Signal detection theory

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