Babies use inferential learning mechanisms to come to conclusions about the world around them. It's how they test theories and decide what is true. Over the first three years of life, there are dramatic changes in what I child knows. We are born with the ability to distinguish faces and human voices from other sounds and sights, but we are not able to understand actions and emotions until 12 months. Children who are 3 and under tend to not remember where they acquired their knowledge.
It is true that babies are like small scientists; "Babies are like little scientists continually overthrowing theories that no longer fit the evidence." Babies make and test hypotheses and experiment to find out what is considered true in this world, and what is not. All of their conclusions come from observing and testing.
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