"I'm ready to go," Olivia told her husband! "I wore a new perfume tonight.I hope you like it!" Olivia's husband nodded dutifully and told her how nice it smelled,but in truth he couldn't smell a thing.According to the principles of psychophysics,Olivia was not wearing enough perfume to exceed her husband's __________.

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The absolute threshold is the minimum amount of stimulus energy that can be detected by a sensory system, and if Olivia's husband couldn't detect the scent of her perfume, then she did not exceed his absolute threshold. The Weberian level refers to the amount of change required to notice a difference in a stimulus, and the difference threshold (also known as the just noticeable difference) is the minimum amount of difference that can be detected between two stimuli. Neither of these options apply to the situation described in the passage.

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