ON THE NEW PSYCHOPHYSICS |
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| Authors: | S S Stevens |
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| Institution: | Psychological Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | A discussion of problems and methods in modern psychophysics is presented. A distinction is made between prothetic and metathetic continua, and between ratio scales, category scales and what are called confusion scales. The paper includes a survey of some scaling experiments and reports the exponents of a number of power functions describing the relation between stimulus magnitude and subjective magnitude. |
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