Prashanth Is Participating in a Psychology Experiment in Which He

question 83

Multiple Choice

Prashanth is participating in a psychology experiment in which he is asked to gradually shrink the image of a square on his computer screen until he can just barely see that it is smaller than a second square on the screen.Prashanth is trying to create a

• A) signal detection.
• B) absolute threshold.
• C) just-noticeable difference.
• D) difference threshold.

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