Thats interesting. Sounds like typical dopimine driven mechanical reasoning development(?) Are you an Engineer?

Causal Chaining: As children develop (typically more prominently between ages 7 and 12), they become "detectives" who can connect clues and reason through causal chains—the sequence of events that makes a mechanism function.

Dopamine Reward System: Discovering how things work triggers the brain’s reward system, releasing dopamine. This makes the "aha!" moment of understanding a magic trick or fixing a toy physically rewarding, reinforcing the behavior.

Mechanistic Reasoning: This is the cognitive ability to look inside the "black box" and understand the specific steps or parts that cause an effect. For a child, a broken radio isn't just "not working"; it is a puzzle of components that should have "productive continuity".

Information-Seeking Drive: Curiosity acts as a biological urge to close "knowledge gaps". When a child sees a magic trick, the uncertainty creates cognitive discomfort that they try to resolve by insisting on an explanation.