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ON THE NEW PSYCHOPHYSICS
Author(s) -
Stevens S. S.
Publication year - 1960
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1960.tb01278.x
Subject(s) - psychophysics , confusion , psychology , stimulus (psychology) , scaling , cognitive psychology , perception , explanatory power , epistemology , mathematics , philosophy , psychoanalysis , neuroscience , geometry
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.