Weber's Law, which describes the relationship between stimulus and perception, breaks down at both extremes: it does not apply well to very weak stimuli where even small changes can be perceptible, and it also fails at very intense levels of stimulus where the proportional change required to notice a difference becomes impractically large.

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Weber's Law

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Weber's Law

A) breaks down at very weak values of a stimulus.
B) breaks down at very intense values of a stimulus.
C) both breaks down at very weak values of a stimulus and breaks down at very intense values of a stimulus.
D) neither breaks down at very weak values of a stimulus nor breaks down at very intense values of a stimulus.

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