Kids are weird, like really weird, but in a fun way? Dr. Jenessa Seymour is back to tell us about some classic child development paradigms that really need to be reevaluated. Depending on when you learned about these experiments, you were either taught that they were the gospel truth, with established ages where kids can and cannot pass these tests, and major consequences for late development, or maybe you heard that recent studies show it's a bit more complicated. Still makes for some cute and funny demonstrations either way.

Sources:

• The marshmallow test is really about trust
• The "curse of knowledge"
• Autistic kids pass theory-of-mind tests on a computer
• Passing the theory-of-mind test with implicit looking measures at 15-months-old and 13-months-old
• Kids pass the conservation test sooner when they do it themselves

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