Imagine you are tasting bowls of soup for a chef who is working on a soup recipe, and she wants the soup to have a subtle hint of black pepper flavor. In her first batch of soup, you could not detect any pepper flavor. If she cooks several more batches of soup and keeps increasing the amount of black pepper in every batch until you finally notice the black pepper flavor, which psychophysical method is she employing?

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The method of limits involves gradually increasing or decreasing the intensity of a stimulus until the participant detects it. In this scenario, the chef is increasing the amount of black pepper until it is detectable, which aligns with the method of limits.

Imagine You Are Tasting Bowls of Soup for a Chef