Catherine is at a crowded baseball game when she loses track of her son, Nick. Despite the loud cheering and noise of the crowd, she can pinpoint his location when he calls for her because she can distinguish the sound of his voice from the all the other voices. This illustrates ________ theory.
A) absolute threshold
B) just noticeable difference
C) Weber's
D) signal detection

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Catherine's ability to distinguish her son's voice from background noise is an example of signal detection theory, which explains how we discern a faint stimulus amidst background noise.

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