Noelle wants to measure her cat's auditory threshold.She quietly whispers Ernie's name and slowly increases her volume until the cat turns and looks at her.Over the course of several days,she whispers ten times at each volume.The volume at which Ernie responds five times is called:

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The volume at which Ernie responds five times (out of ten) is the minimum volume at which he can detect the sound, which is equivalent to the auditory threshold. Therefore, choice A, the absolute threshold, is the best answer. The other options are not relevant to this scenario: the just noticeable difference is the smallest detectable change in a stimulus, Weber's law is the principle that the relationship between a stimulus and its perceived intensity is logarithmic, and the relative threshold is not a recognized term in psychology.

Noelle Wants to Measure Her Cat's Auditory Threshold