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Threshold<br />

More definitions to know<br />

The point at which a receptor starts responding and<br />

does so at least 50% of the time.<br />

Habituation<br />

The point at which a receptor stops responding to an<br />

unchanging stimuli.<br />

This happens in all of the senses<br />

Early psychophysicists tried to reduce S & P to a<br />

group of “laws” of psychological processes.

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