Stevens' Power Law Exercise

Power Law Curves

1. Which stimulus dimension above is most likely to have an exponent equal to 1?

2. What does it mean in words to say that the exponent is equal to 1?

3. Which stimulus dimension above is most likely to have an exponent greater than 1?

4. What does it mean in words to say that the exponent is greater than 1?

5. Which stimulus dimension above is most likely to have an exponent less than 1?

6. What does it mean in words to say that the exponent is less than 1?

7. Notice in the Table of Exponents that the exponent for sucrose sugar = 1.3 and the exponent for saccharine = 0.8. What does this mean if we double the original amount of both sweeteners?