A psychologist who asked you to make a series of judgments to determine whether or not a light was present in an unlit room would be trying to assess your ________ for perceiving light.
A) psychometric function
B) absolute threshold
C) response bias
D) just noticeable difference (jnd)

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The psychologist is trying to assess the individual's absolute threshold, which is the minimum level of stimulus intensity needed for the person to detect a stimulus. The other options are not directly related to this task - psychometric function typically involves plotting performance across a range of stimulus intensities, response bias involves a tendency to respond in a certain way regardless of the stimulus, and just noticeable difference (jnd) involves the smallest detectable difference between two stimuli.

A Psychologist Who Asked You to Make a Series of Judgments