The human brain is an extremely intricate instrument, whose processes cannot fully be interpreted. One of the essential jobs of the human brain is to control memory. Why we remember things and what we remember in the long term, to some extent, cannot be understood. However, experiments have been done trying to understand how our short-term memory works. Although the works of the short-term memory may not seem entirely too difficult to understand, if everyone had mastered them, one would assume that grades and test scores would be much higher than they are. …