The Method of Adjustment

• Advantages:

  • Simple task
  • Efficient
  • Full observer involvement

• Disadvantages

  • Subject bias
  • Possibility of adaptation
  • Errors of anticipation

• Adjust intensity of stimulus until target is just detectable

• Typically, observer has control of stimulus

• Typically make adjustments from above (descending) and below (ascending)

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