<P> The long - term store is responsible for storing relationships between different items and of items to their contexts . Context information refers to the situational and temporal factors present at the time when an item is in the short - term store, such as emotional feelings or environmental details . The amount of item - context information which is transferred to the long - term store is proportional to the amount of time that the item remains in the short - term store . On the other hand, the strength of the item - item associations is proportional to the amount of time that two items simultaneously existed in the short - term store . </P> <P> It is best to show how items are recalled from the long - term store using an example . Assume a participant has just studied a list of word pairs and is now being tested on his memory of those pairs . If the prior list contained, blanket--ocean, the test would be to recall ocean when prompted with blanket--? . </P> <P> 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 . </P> <P> Using these cues the individual determines which area of the long - term store to search and then samples any items with associations to the cues . This search is automatic and unconscious, which is how the authors would explain how an answer "pops" into one's head . The items which are eventually recovered, or recalled, are those with the strongest associations to the cue item, here blanket . Once an item has been recovered it is evaluated, here the participant would decide whether blanket - (recovered word) matches blanket--ocean . If there is a match, or if the participant believes there is a match, the recovered word is output . Otherwise the search starts from the beginning using different cues or weighting cues differently if possible . </P>

Which of the following is not considered a modern change to the modal model of memory