Read the scenario below and answer the question that follows. Lily asked her husband Joe to tell her what he thought of the perfume she was wearing. In order to spare her feelings, he told her that he really liked it, but the truth is that he couldn’t smell the perfume at all. Joe has a __________ than Lily.

An absolute threshold is the weakest level of a stimulus a person can detect. Joe cannot smell the perfume, so his sense of smell requires a stronger scent for detection than Lily’s does. Therefore, Joe has a higher absolute threshold than Lily; a difference threshold concerns noticing a change between two stimuli.

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