You Are Watching a Movie with Some Scenes Set in a Noisy

question 50

Multiple Choice

You are watching a movie with some scenes set in a noisy bar, some scenes containing gunfire, and some scenes containing very quiet dialogue. During the quiet scenes, you can hear most of the dialogue but you find that if the actors drop their volume on certain lines, you cannot hear what they are saying. This reflects the fact that a message must exceed a(n) ________ in order to be processed.

• A) expectation
• B) arbitrary value
• C) threshold
• D) upper limit

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