What Is a Retrieval Cue

A retrieval cue is a clue or prompt that is used to trigger the retrieval of long-term memory

What are three cues for memory retrieval?

There are three ways you can retrieve information out of your long-term memory storage system: recall, recognition, and relearning.

What is a retrieval cue failure?

Retrieval failure is where the information is in long term memory, but cannot be accessed. Such information is said to be available (i.e. it is still stored) but not accessible (i.e. it cannot be retrieved). It cannot be accessed because the retrieval cues are not present.