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Rhianna and Michael Are Going on a First Date

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Rhianna and Michael are going on a first date.He shows up in jeans and a T-shirt,whereas she shows up in an elegant dress.Rhianna is upset because she thinks Michael's casual dress meant that he did not think enough of her to want to look good.She might be comforted if she knew that she and Michael probably have conflicting _____ of a date.


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Absolute Threshold

The minimum intensity of a stimulus required to be correctly perceived by sensory systems at least 50% of the time.

Difference Threshold

The minimal change in stimulus that can just barely be detected by an organism, also known as the just noticeable difference (JND).

Trichromatic Theory

A theory of color vision proposing that colors are perceived through the relative rates of response by three kinds of cones, each one sensitive to a range of wavelengths.

Opponent-process Theory

A psychological and physiological model that explains how humans perceive colors as the result of complex interactions between various neurons that process color in an antagonistic manner.

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