Anne is participating in a psychology experiment in which she is blindfolded and asked to judge whether the experimenter taps her on the shoulder in 10 separate trials. During the third trial, the experimenter taps Anne on the shoulder, yet she reports feeling nothing. In signal detection theory, this would be considered a:
A) response bias
B) hit
C) miss
D) false alarm

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A miss occurs when there is a real signal present (in this case, the tap on the shoulder), but the participant fails to detect it.

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