Mohamed is home alone one evening when he thinks he hears a voice. He investigates and finds that there's no one there. This would be called a _______________ in the terminology of signal detection theory

FIll in the blank with correct word.


Answer: false alarm
Rationale: In signal detection theory experiments, if a participant thinks they detected the signal when no signal is present, this is called a false alarm.

Psychology

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An important method of measuring brain activity is fMRI. That abbreviation stands for _________ magnetic resonance imaging

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

Psychology

Your relative standing informs you

a. of how your scores compares with the sample or population from which it is derived. b. of the significance of your score. c. whether your score is from a sample or a population. d. of surprisingly very little.

Psychology

The colors across from one another on the color wheel are labeled _______ _______

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

Psychology

On what type of reinforcement schedule would you receive 5 points for every 10 vocabulary words you learn?

a) fixed-ratio 5 b) fixed-ratio 10 c) variable-ratio 5 d) variable-ratio 10

Psychology