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Definition of Absolute threshold
1. Noun. The lowest level of stimulation that a person can detect.
Definition of Absolute threshold
1. Noun. The smallest amount of simulus that can be responded to.(reference-book last = first = authorlink = coauthors = editor =Gove, Philip Babcock others = title = Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged origdate = origyear = 1909 origmonth = url = format = accessdate = accessyear = accessmonth = edition = date = year =1976 month = publisher =G. & C. Merriam Co. location = Springfield, MA language = id = doi = isbn =0-87779-101-5 lccn = ol = pages =6 chapter = chapterurl = quote =) ¹
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Medical Definition of Absolute threshold
1. The lowest limit of any perception whatever. Compare: differential threshold. Synonym: stimulus threshold. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Absolute Threshold
Literary usage of Absolute threshold
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Elementary Laboratory Course in Psychology by Herbert Sidney Langfeld, (, Floyd Henry Allport, ( (1916)
"absolute threshold for Color (9) Materials: Color-wheel.1 Large discs of ...
The average of these two averages then gives the absolute threshold for the ..."
2. Poverty and Equity: Measurement, Policy and Estimation with Dad by Jean-Yves Duclos (2006)
"An absolute threshold in these spaces would, however, generally imply relativity
of the corresponding thresholds in the space of the commodities and in the ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1903)
"... in large measure falls away so far as the interpretation of the psychophysical
relations is concerned; the absolute threshold becomes an expression for ..."
4. Handbook of physiology by William Dobinson Halliburton (1913)
"... of stimulus which just suffices to evoke a sensation is called the liminal (from
limen, a threshold) * value of the stimulus, or its absolute threshold. ..."
5. American Journal of Physiology by American Physiological Society (1887- ). (1913)
"To get a rough estimate of the value of ß (the absolute threshold value) and as
a check on the observations of secondary position, we plotted the Z's ..."
6. A Study of Prolonged Fasting by Francis Gano Benedict (1915)
"The threshold is probably too high, but for the present purpose, where the change
and not the absolute threshold is being investigated, this does not matter ..."
7. A Text-book of Experimental Psychology: With Laboratory Exercises by Charles Samuel Myers (1911)
"When no standard presentation is used, the limiting method becomes applicable to
the determination of the absolute threshold. For such purpose, of course, ..."
8. Harvard Psychological Studies by Harvard Psychological Laboratory (1915)
"The threshold is probably too high, but for the present purpose, where the change
and not the absolute threshold is being investigated this does not matter. ..."
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