Think of the "child as scientist." When a toddler drops a spoon from their high chair 20 times, they aren't just being annoying.

They are actively running experiments. They are testing their hypothesis ("If I let go of this, it falls") and confirming the rules of their world model.

This process is called World Model Induction. It's not passive learning; it's active, hypothesis-driven exploration to figure out the latent rules of a new environment.