WEBER'S LAW

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Example:

Weber's law explains why you don't notice your headlights are on in the daytime

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Weber's law" is a kind of...):

law; law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature)

Domain category:

psychophysics (the branch of psychology concerned with quantitative relations between physical stimuli and their psychological effects)

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