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Here's a great TED talk discussing how babies this age go about learning how to deal with the world. Essentially there's a lot of experimentation as other folks have commented on but there's a part towards the end about how they seem to use a super sophisticated statistical model of the world to figure out the odds of things working. http://www.ted.com/talks/alison_gopnik_what_do_babies_think....