SEVERAL CURRENT THEORIES OF THE RESPONSE PROCESS IN RECOGNITION MEMORY, OR IN CONFIDENCE RATING IN RECALL, HAVE POSTULATED A CONTINUOUS DECISION PROCESS AS IN THE THEORY OF SIGNAL DETECTABILITY. THIS ASSUMPTION, HOWEVER, DOES NOT RULE OUT ASSUMING THAT THE PROCESS BY WHICH INFORMATION IS STORED AND RETAINED IN MEMORY IS A DISCRETE ONE. IN THE FINITE-STATE DECISION THEORY PRESENTED HERE, THE CONTINUOUS DECISION PROCESS IS COMBINED WITH A REPRESENTATION OF THE MEMORY TRACE AS A TAG THAT IS EITHER AVAILABLE OR NOT AVAILABLE AT THE TIME OF TEST. IN ITS PREDICTIONS FOR RECOGNITION MEMORY EXPERIMENTS, THIS THEORY IS AT LEAST THE EQUAL OF THEORIES BASED ON TRADITIONAL HABIT STRENGTH ASSUMPTIONS. FURTHERMORE- DATA <&FROM STUDIES OF CONFIDENCE RATINGS IN RECALL <&PROVIDE CONSIDERABLE SUPPORT FOR THE <&FINITE-STATE ASSUMPTION. (25 REF.)

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