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Charlie works for a moving company. He can easily tell the difference in weight between two small boxes but cannot detect any difference at all between the weight of the washing machine and the weight of the dryer. This is an example of ________.

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Answer: Weber's Law

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Weber's law states that alteration or difference occurring in stimulus that can be fairly noticeable defines constant ratio of the actual stimulus. It is used field of quantitative psychology.

According to the question,Weber law is being displayed when Charlie has the capability to detect small boxes weight difference sufficiently as just-noticeable but is not able to identify the weight of washing machine and dryer as it is not noticed by him in general way .

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