There Are Four Boys and Four Girls at a Party

question 60

Short Answer

There are four boys and four girls at a party. In how many ways can they be seated in a row of five?

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Definitions:

Short-Term Memory

The capability to maintain a small volume of information in an immediate, ready-to-use state for a short time.

Chunking

A memory strategy that involves grouping individual pieces of information together into larger units to aid in recall.

Sensory Memory

The shortest-term element of memory which allows the retention of impressions of sensory information after the original stimuli have ended.

Atkinson-Shiffrin Theory

A model of memory proposed by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin that describes a structural model involving three key systems: sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory.