Author Question: On Saturday, Elbert walked through a crowd at the state fair in a small town in Illinois. On Monday, ... (Read 36 times)

londonang · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

On Saturday, Elbert walked through a crowd at the state fair in a small town in Illinois. On Monday, he walked through a crowded train station in a large crime-ridden city. In both situations, Elbert felt someone brush up against his back pocket. Elbert is more likely to detect that someone is stealing his wallet while in the large city than in the small town due to his lower ____.

a. difference threshold
b. response criterion
c. sensitivity
d. signal-detection ratio

Question 2

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