AP Psych Unit 4 Signal Detection Theory

A man is angry because the neighbor children keep cutting through his yard which is ruining his freshly planted flowers. He's keeping a close watch through his back window when suddenly he sees movement and prepares to shout out the window. He does not do anything because he accurately realizes the movement was caused by a raccoon.

Correct rejection

The final contestant initially feels a pear but releases it and continues to look for an apple

Correct rejection

And administrative assistant is expecting an important email from her boss, she was temporarily leave her desk to make some copies, as she makes copies she think she hears the ding of her computer indicating she has an incoming message, it turns out that she did not receive any incoming messages

False alarm

The next person in line retrieved a pear instead of an apple which does not count for points in the game

False alarm

The sister then goes into her brothers room and sees a lump under the sheets, she sneaks up to the lump in screams, "I found you", But soon she finds out this is her brothers stuffed up teddy bear

False alarm

Later that evening he once again sees movement, based on the amount of noise he believes it is one of the neighbor children; he turns on the backyard lights and finds two of them halfway across the lawn.

Hit

Your friend goes next and instantly comes up with an apple and scores a point in the game

Hit

A brother and sister are playing hide and seek in the brother has hid under a pillow on the sofa. His sister comes into the room and looks at the sofa, but seeing nothing she leaves

Miss

You're a bobbing for apples one Halloween and have just seen the host dump 10 new apples into the bucket, which you are using. You go in and come up with only a mouthful of water

Miss