1. Fill in the blank: For these data, Weber fractions that are less than the mean of the Weber fractions tend to be paired with stimulus intensities that are the mean of the stimulus intensities. 2. According to the regression equation, for an increase of one decibel in stimulus intensity, there is a corresponding decrease of how many decibels in the Weber fraction? 3. From the regression equation, what is the predicted Weber fraction (in decibels) when the stimulus intensity is 65 decibels? (Round your answer to at least two decimal places.) 4. What was the observed Weber fraction (in decibels) when the stimulus intensity was 65 decibels?
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Weber's law, a concept taught in most Introduction to Psychology courses, states that the ratio of the intensity of a stimulus to the "just noticeable" increment in
intensity is constant, that is, the ratio doesn't depend on the intensity of the stimulus. The ratio is called the "Weber fraction," so a concise statement of Weber's
law is that "the Weber fraction is constant, regardless of the stimulus intensity." It turns out that Weber's law is not so much a law as it is a rule of thumb, since
it is violated in many situations. For instance, for some auditory stimuli, the Weber fraction does depend systematically on the stimulus intensity.
The following bivariate data are the experimental data obtained for one listener in an auditory intensity discrimination task. For each of the ten stimulus
intensities x (in decibels), the experimental Weber fraction y (in decibels) is shown. For these data, the least-squares regression line is y = 3.1193 -0.0941x.
This line is shown in the scatter plot in Figure 1.
Stimulus
intensity, x
(in decibels)
Weber fraction, y
(in decibels)
1-
35
-0.48
0+
40
-0.24
45
-1.39
-1+
50
-1.05
-2+
55
-2.12
-3+
60
-2.81
-4+
65
-3.34
70
-2.99
75
-4.21
30
80
-4.29
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1. Fill in the blank: For these data, Weber fractions that are less than
the mean of the Weber fractions tend to be paired with stimulus
intensities that are
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the mean of the stimulus intensities.
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greater than
less than
2. According to the regression equation, for an increase of one decibel
in stimulus intensity, there is a corresponding decrease of how many
decibels in the Weber fraction?
3. From the regression equation, what is the predicted Weber fraction
(in decibels) when the stimulus intensity is 65 decibels? (Round your
answer to at least two decimal places.)
4. What was the observed Weber fraction (in decibels) when the
stimulus intensity was 65 decibels?
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As per the Weber's law, we can draw the inference that Weber's fraction doesn't depends upon the intensity of stimulus.
When the experimental data was plotted, we got a straight line with negative slope (-0.0941) and a positive intercept.
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