Devinder, a participant in a research study. She is asked to look at a series of images of black dots scattered in a random order and then identify which images contain at least one gray dot. She ends up greatly underestimating the number of "gray dot" images, illustrating a high number of

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Devinder's underestimation of the number of "gray dot" images, where she fails to identify images that do contain a gray dot, is an example of "misses." This term is used in signal detection theory to describe when a signal (in this case, a gray dot) is present, but the observer (Devinder) fails to detect it.

Devinder, a Participant in a Research Study