You are studying in your dorm room. you gently request that your neighbor turn the volume of his television down until you cannot hear it. you are asking your neighbor to find your:

Absolute threshold              

Explanation:

Absolute threshold: The term absolute threshold is defined as the least energy being utilized by an external stimulus to be discovered or identified by an individual's senses like hearing, taste, vision, touch, and smell.

In other words, the point of a particular stimulus intensity required to detect the stimulus fifty percent or at least half of the time.

The term has been used in experimental research and neurosciences.

Example: A measure of the least amount of any fragrance that a person can smell in his or her room.

In the question above, You are asking your neighbor to find your absolute threshold.