ON THE NEW PSYCHOPHYSICS
- 1 March 1960
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 1 (1) , 27-35
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9450.1960.tb01278.x
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.Keywords
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