You are studying in your dorm room, but your neighbor is blasting the television in the adjacent room. When you gently request that your neighbor turn the volume down until you cannot hear it, you are asking your neighbor to make the volume less than your:.
a. absolute threshold.
b. difference threshold.
c. minimum transduction level.
d. basilar level.

The answer is a. absolute threshold.

Explanation:

The absolute threshold is described as the minimal perceptible level of a stimulus. In the example, the threshold is auditory.

A common way of measuring one's hearing absolute threshold is to gradually increase a sound frequence until the person starts perceiving the sound. However, the stimulus must be identified at least 50% of the time.

Most people's absolute thresholds decline with age.  

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