Victoria is conducting a study on the use of humor by police in public-police interactions. She conducts a study and trains a confederate to use humor, but she's not sure how much humor is necessary to get people to notice. What aspect of controlling experiments is Victoria resolving?
A)threshold effects
B)experimenter effects
C)Hawthorne effect
D)reinforcing effects

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Victoria is addressing threshold effects, which refer to the minimum level at which a particular effect (in this case, the impact of humor in public-police interactions) becomes noticeable or significant.

Victoria Is Conducting a Study on the Use of Humor