You Are Blindfolded and Asked to Taste a Cup of Coffee

Multiple Choice

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 __________.

A) hits; misses
B) hits; correct rejections
C) correct rejections; hits
D) hits; false alarms
E) positives; false negatives