Juanita was drinking some warm punch and she thought she could just detect a faint taste of nutmeg in the punch.However when she took another sip the taste wasn't there.On the third sip she could just make out the taste of nutmeg again.It is very likely that the amount of nutmeg in the punch was
A) just below her taste constancy level.
B) producing inhibitory synapses rather than excitatory synapses.
C) producing action potentials that were too weak to reach the terminal buttons.
D) just at her absolute threshold for taste.

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The absolute threshold is the minimum intensity of a stimulus that one can detect 50% of the time. Juanita's experience of sometimes tasting the nutmeg and sometimes not suggests the nutmeg is at this threshold level.

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