The Measurement of Sensation

Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-19-852342-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 587 g

The publication in 1957 of S.S. Stevens' famous paper, On the psychophysical law, ignited a controversy which has continued ever since relating to people's subjective judgements of physical reality. Why is it that the perception of sensation can diverge so sharply from the magnitude of the stimulus? How should sensation be measured? Donald Laming brings together a diversity of ideas and a wealth of experimental evidence, and provides a challenging new perspective on the question which has fragmented the research community for nearly 40 years.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Laming, Donald

Laming, D. R. J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: The origins of a controversy

- 2: Can sensation be measured?

- 3: Fehcner's law - the normal model

- 4: A reinterpretation of sensory discrimination - the chi-squared model

- 5: Stevens' power law

- 6: The physiological basis of sensation

- 7: Scaling sensation

- 8: Matching just noticeable differences

- 9: Judging relations between sensations

- 10: The psychophysical primitive

- 11: Why Stevens' law is a power law

- 12: The stimulus range

- 13: How then can sensation be measured?