Assume That an Experiment Has Determined That, for Monkeys, the Weber

question 104

Multiple Choice

Assume that an experiment has determined that, for monkeys, the Weber fraction for vision is 1/25 while that for audition is 1/5. What does this tell us?

• A) The monkey can make finer visual discriminations than auditory discriminations.
• B) The monkey can make finer auditory discriminations than visual discriminations.
• C) Over the range of perceptible stimuli, the monkey's visual sense is as keen as its auditory sense.
• D) An auditory stimulus is perceived as being five times as intense as a visual stimulus.

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