You are blindfolded and asked to taste a cup of coffee to determine if it contains cream. Eight times out of 10 you correctly identified the presence of cream, but twice you said that cream was present when there was none there. According to signal detection theory,
your correct responses are called ___ and your incorrect responses are called ___
________.

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In signal detection theory, correctly identifying the presence of a signal (cream) is called a "hit," and incorrectly identifying a signal when it is not present is called a "false alarm."

You Are Blindfolded and Asked to Taste a Cup of Coffee