Inspector Holmes and His Trusty Assistant,Watson,are Snooping Around a Dark,deserted

question 57

Multiple Choice

Inspector Holmes and his trusty assistant,Watson,are snooping around a dark,deserted house in London.Watson suddenly screams,"Holmes! I thought I just saw a flicker of light!" Holmes turns to him and says,"No,my dear boy.You must have been interpreting a random firing of sensory neurons as a stimulus." Holmes is describing ____.

• A) an absolute threshold
• B) a just-noticeable difference
• C) internal noise
• D) Weber's law

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Definitions:

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