The Impossible Event (a) In the habituation trials, infants watched a drawbridge flip back and forth with nothing in its path until they grew bored. Then a box was placed behind the drawbridge and the infants were shown one of two events: In the possible event, the box kept the drawbridge from flipping all the way over; in the impossible event, it did not. (b) The graph shows the infants’ looking time during the habituation and the test trials. During the test trials, their interest was re-awakened by the impossible event but not by the possible event (Baillargeon, Spelke, & Wasserman, 1985).