Yasmin, Kai, and Priya are playing hide and seek. Yasmin is it and is counting at the base tree, while Kai and Priya are hiding. Kai decides to hide in the barn because last time they played, Yasmin mentioned she's a bit scared of the dark places and wouldn't look there. Meanwhile, Priya hides behind the bushes near the base tree, thinking she can sneak to the base when Yasmin starts looking for Kai. Unbeknownst to both Kai and Priya, Yasmin overcame her fear of dark places yesterday when she dropped and had to retrieve her favorite earring in a dark attic. Assuming Yasmin will use all areas available to search, where is Yasmin likely to find Priya first before Kai, and why?
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Yasmin is likely to find Priya first before Kai based on several elements of simple reasoning regarding human behavior and the specifics of this situation. Knowing hide and seek, the seeker typically begins searching close to the base before moving to more distant hiding spots, which makes nearby hiding places, like the bushes where Priya is hiding, more susceptible to being checked first. Additionally, Yasmin's recent experience of overcoming her fear of dark places would now make the barn, where Kai is hiding, a viable spot for her to search. Despite this, the sequence of her search would follow a pattern of checking less remote areas initially. Given this order of operations in hide and seek, and without considering any atypical behavior on Yasmin's part, Priya, being in proximity to the base, would naturally be found before Kai. The knowledge gained by Yasmin the previous day about no longer fearing dark places does not necessarily change the fact that, in practice, seekers often check closer hiding points first. Kai's assumption that Yasmin won't check the barn is incorrect, but it does not have an immediate bearing on who Yasmin finds first given that Priya is hiding closer to the base.