Signal detection analysis of conditioning data.

Signal detection analysis of learning and conditioning data provides for a greater distinction to be made between learning and performance through the use of the two signal detection parameters, d' and B. The use of the two parameters permits alternative interpretation of several types of data sets discussed. This analytic technique may be used with either discrete trial or free-response data. The present article reveiws applications of signal detection parameters in the literature, and provides for their extension to other uses.