What is a false alarm in signal detection theory?

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asked Jan 17 in Psychology by Cameron54A25 (1.9k points)

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answered Jan 17 by DaltonJanney (2.0k points)

A false alarm is when a signal is detected in a detection task for which it is not present.

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