Inspector Holmes and his trusty assistant, Watson, are snooping around a dark, deserted house in London. Watson suddenly screams, "Holmes! I thought I just saw a flicker of light!" Holmes turns to him and says, "No, my dear boy. You must have been interpreting a random firing of sensory neurons as a stimulus." Holmes is describing ____.?
a. ?an absolute threshold
b. ?a just-noticeable difference
c. ?internal noise
d. ?Weber's law
ANSWER:
c
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