Dr. Lindsay Gibson

I mean, she was probably maybe two and a half.

She was really, she was really little.

And she came up to her father and shook her finger in his face and said, don't you ever do that to me again?

And he started laughing and she put her hands on her hips.

And sort of stared him down.

And then she flounced off and turned around again and shook her finger at him again and said, don't you forget that blah, blah.

And he was rolling on the floor in laughter.

Okay.

So...

When I watched that, I thought, oh my goodness, he is teaching her that this is getting positive responses from him.

Another example is there was a thing, I don't know if it's still a thing on social media, I hope it's died an early death, but people would tell their child some kind of bad news or tell them they were in this big trouble and they couldn't go to the

know yeah ball game or whatever and the child just like dissolve in tears and they'd be so upset and they'd be you know distraught and then they'd say oh just kidding yes we're really going and it was like you just psychologically tortured your child that stuff is so unbelievable to me that people would do that and then record it and put it on the internet i i completely agree

Yes, yes.

Another one was, you know, those animatronic plants that, you know, the plant sits there and then you, I don't know if it's remote or whatever, but you...

the plant will suddenly start moving, and they'll put that in front of a baby, and the baby looks at it, and the plant moves, and the baby bursts into tears.

It's very reliable.

It happens every shot that they show of that.

And that's because that baby is working on its model of reality, what it knows about reality.

And you've just tricked it and said, huh, you know, reality is plants can move by themselves.

And the baby goes, whoa, no, you know, and they fall apart because their model of reality is so fragile at that point.