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Weber's law   /vˈeɪbərz lɔ/   Listen
Weber's law

noun
1.
(psychophysics) the concept that a just-noticeable difference in a stimulus is proportional to the magnitude of the original stimulus.





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"Weber's law" Quotes from Famous Books



... Concomitant Variations may hold good only within certain limits. That bodies contract as the temperature falls, is not true of water below 39 deg. F. In Psychology, Weber's Law is only true within the median range of sensation-intensities, not for very faint, nor for very strong, stimuli. In such cases the failure of the laws may depend upon something imperfectly understood in the collocation: as to water, on its molecular constitution; as to sensation, ...
— Logic - Deductive and Inductive • Carveth Read


Words linked to "Weber's law" :   law of nature, law, psychophysics


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