{"id":20653,"date":"2024-08-19T22:20:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T22:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/the-bohr-weber-law-or-discriminatory-threshold-law\/"},"modified":"2024-09-08T19:33:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T19:33:35","slug":"the-bohr-weber-law-or-discriminatory-threshold-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/the-bohr-weber-law-or-discriminatory-threshold-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bohr-Weber law or discriminatory threshold law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>  Bohr-Weber law or the law of the discriminative threshold:\nIt is an objective psychophysical law.\nIt expresses a person&#8217;s ability to distinguish between an added stimulus and an original stimulus in physical properties (e.g. height, color, shape, form,\nmass&#8230;) so that the properties are similar between the added and original stimulus.\nMany studies have shown that this law is only valid for the middle part of the sensory range.\nwhere the differential sensitivity is maximum.\nOutside this region, the relative threshold increases.\nthe relative threshold increases.\nincreases very significantly.\nIn this regard\nsome researchers accept Boger-Weber&#8217;s law.\nbut consider it somewhat idealized; others are looking for new formulas.\nIt should be noted that in the framework of classical psychophysics.\nthis law has great theoretical significance.\nGustav Fechner, the founder of psychophysics, relied on it to derive the fundamental psychophysical law.              <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bohr-Weber law or the law of the discriminative threshold: It is an objective psychophysical law. It expresses a person&#8217;s ability to distinguish between an added stimulus and an original stimulus in physical properties (e.g. height, color, shape, form, mass&#8230;) so that the properties are similar between the added and original stimulus. Many studies have shown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-psychophysics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}