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STEVENS' LAW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(psychophysics) the concept that the magnitude of a subjective sensation increases proportional to a power of the stimulus intensity
Synonyms:
power law; Stevens' law; Stevens' power law
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Stevens' 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)