How Long and Short Term work together

Basically, short-term memory is the first step to getting information to long-term and being able to remember things. Steps: 1. See or get the information. 2. Store it in short-term memory and rehearse it. Then, it can go 1 of 3 ways. 3a. it can be "coded" and stored in Long-Term memory for later. Success! 3b. it can fail to be coded and then be forgotten. 3c. the information from short-term cna be retrieved immediately and is therefore remembered. 4a. From 3a's solution, it can backtrack to 3b and 3c. From Long-Term, the retrieval can fail and it is forgotten. Also, the long-term memory can be retrieved later and then it is remembered!