You are watching television while expecting an important phone call. Periodically you think you hear the phone and pick up the receiver only to hear a dial tone. According to signal detection theory, what type of error have you made?
a) true negative
b) true positive
c) false negative
d) false positive
ANS: d
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Zandra is studying about the ions involved in the action potential. She records in her notes that ____.
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