Porter’s law

the principle that the critical flicker frequency increases with the logarithm of the brightness of the stimulus, independent of the stimulus wavelength. Also called Ferry–Porter law. [Thomas Cunningham Porter (1860–1933), British scientist; Edwin Sidney Ferry (1868–1956), U.S. physicist]

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Psychology term of the day

February 19th 2025

latent need

a need that is assumed to be present in a person and determines behavior but is not in that person’s conscious awareness.