The Smallest Intensity of a Stimulus That Can Be Reliably

question 78

Multiple Choice

The smallest intensity of a stimulus that can be reliably detected,used by Fechner as the "zero point" in his scale of subjective intensities,is called the

• A) logarithm.
• B) absolute threshold.
• C) phi phenomenon.
• D) constant k.

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