How Is Stevens's Power Law Different from Weber's Law

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Multiple Choice

How is Stevens's power law different from Weber's law?

• A) It was developed to apply to perceptions that are well above threshold levels.
• B) It was developed to relate changes in actual physical magnitude to perceived magnitude.
• C) It relates to scaling rather than to detection or difference.
• D) All of these are differences.

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