Memories stored in long-term store are retrieved through a logical process involving the assembly of cues, sampling, recovery, and evaluation of recovery. According to the model, when an item needs to be recalled from memory the individual assembles the various cues for the item in the short-term store. In this case, the cues would be any cues surrounding the pair "blanket – ocean", like the words that preceded and followed it, what the participant was feeling at the time, how far into the list the words were, etc.