Dr. Lazarte is testing an elderly patient's hearing by presenting a set of tones at different intensities. Each tone is presented multiple times, interleaved with the other tones in a random order. After each presentation, the patient indicates whether she heard the tone. The psychophysical technique being used in this scenario is the:
A) method of adjustment.
B) staircase method.
C) method of constant stimuli.
D) method of random stimuli.

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The method of constant stimuli involves presenting various stimuli of different intensities in a random order to measure the threshold at which a subject can detect the stimulus. This is exactly what Dr. Lazarte is doing by presenting tones at different intensities in a random order and asking the patient to indicate whether she heard each tone.

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