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When you cannot remember something, the difficulty seems to occur at the moment you try to recall it. But the problem may have begun earlier. You may not have attended to the information, understood it clearly, or connected it with a useful way to find it later.
Three terms help distinguish these possibilities: encoding, storage, and retrieval. Encoding concerns learning or taking in information in a form that can influence memory. Storage concerns its persistence over time. Retrieval concerns bringing information to mind or using it when needed.
These are distinctions within a connected process, not three containers you can inspect separately. They help you ask what kind of support might address a memory difficulty.