Arlene goes to her closet to look for her pink cashmere sweater. She looks but doesn’t see it and says "my sweater isn’t in the closet." Later, her roommate finds the sweater in the closet. In the language of signal detection analysis, Arlene’s statement is a .

Miss

Explanation:

Signal detection describes or refers to analytical approaches or processes that are applied to observe changes in the pattern of incoming data. In this analysis approach we compare expected value to observe value to find out changes in data pattern and if there is change but it isn't found, it is called a miss such as the above case

using the scientific method.