MCAT Question of the Day
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    Q:

    		 A volunteer is submitted to a signal detection task where she has to press a button when and only when a stimulus is heard among background noise. If she makes any false positives, she receives a negative score. Which of the following statements is correct?
    		 

    A

    		 A miss consists of correctly ignoring a stimulus when it is not there

    B

    		 If the volunteer has low sensitivity, she will never press the button

    C

    		 A hit consists of correctly pressing the button when a signal is present

    D

    		 False alarms cannot be reported in signal detection tasks that involve background noise



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