If you take ‘retrieve’ to mean brining to mind chunks of information, then sure. And some ‘retrieval’ activities are about this. But I retrieval can be about calling forth understanding, which is malleable and open to further shaping during the activity. The meaning of the word is in its use.

Could you explain further what you mean by calling forth understanding and how it is different to bringing to mind chunks of information?

I believe the word's meaning is in perception rather than use; the listener decides the meaning. In other words, it seems you don't perceive the meaning of retrieval in the sense I have mentioned. But due to computer metaphors (used in CLT for example) other meanings emerge and exist in people.