At a family get-together, Keiji, a young child, is playing with a toy train in the living room while his aunt, Sunita, watches him. Sunita then leaves to help in the kitchen. Meanwhile, Keiji's cousin, Amara, enters the room, sees the toy train, and hides it under the couch before leaving to play outside. Keiji notices the toy is gone when he returns from the restroom. He begins to search for it. At that moment, Keiji's older brother, Malik, comes in from the backyard. Where will Keiji first look for the toy train, and what will Malik think has happened to the toy?
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Keiji will first look around the immediate area where he was playing with the toy train before he left for the restroom because that is where he last saw it. He does not know that Amara moved the toy, so he has no reason to believe it's not where he left it. Malik, entering the situation with no prior knowledge of the interactions between Keiji, Sunita, and Amara, will probably assume that Keiji misplaced it himself or that it is in the area where Keiji was last seen playing with it. Neither Malik nor Keiji has seen Amara take and hide the toy train, so neither will immediately suspect that it has been hidden under the couch, unless Malik happens to notice it there during his own observation of the situation. Malik might also consider that Sunita moved it while Keiji was in the restroom, but without additional information, he's more likely to believe it's somewhere around where Keiji had been playing with it.