Saul is a cytotechnologist in training. He is asked to screen a series of tissue samples for precancerous cells. His supervisor checks his work and determines that Saul greatly overestimated the number of samples containing precancerous cells. This may be due to the fact that Saul lost his mother to cancer early in life, and is extra cautious about missing indications of cancerous cells in the samples. This illustrates .

a. false alarms
b. sham hits
c. loss aversion
d. erroneous judgment

A. False alarms

Explanation: False alarms are non-existent reports of emergency, threat or terror. False alarms are deceptive and could arise due to erroneous issuance of emergency report. False alarms could result in commotion, disarray, panic or shock as the report of emergency will be originally considered real.

In the scenario above, erroneously overestimating the number of samples with precancerous cells triggered a non-existent or deceptive notification.In which if not cross checked could raise undue fear or panic arising from erroneous evaluation.