Mary Beth was eating some cookies and she thought she could detect a faint taste of cinnamon in the cookies.However, when she took another bite the taste wasn't there.On the third bite she could just make out the taste of cinnamon again.Based on research conducted by psychophysicists, you should conclude that the amount of cinnamon in the cookies was:

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Mary Beth's ability to detect the taste of cinnamon in the cookies suggests that the amount of cinnamon was at or just above her absolute threshold for taste. This threshold is the minimum amount of a stimulus necessary for a person to detect it 50% of the time. The fact that the taste was not consistently detectable suggests that it was close to her threshold. This is consistent with the psychophysical research on threshold detection.

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