What is the study of the relation between stimulus and sensation called?
Psychophysics
Define Psychophysics
psychophysics is figuring out what you experience when something happens to your sensory organs
something that provides sensory input to any of the sense organs
stimulus
Precision is…
how consistent your judgements about a stimulus are
Accuracy is…
how close, on average, your judgments about a stimulus are to the true value
Can some have high precision and low accuracy?
Yes
True or False?
Accuracy and precision are the same
False
Our ability to distinguish between two stimulus magnitudes depends on their magnitudes
Webers Law (big dog, small dog)