The current studies extend these prior findings in several ways. First, we made the break between the pretend and real situations more extreme to be even more certain that children would know pretending had ended before the real test began. This was accomplished by (a) using a different experimenter and environment and (b) including another task between demonstration and test. Using a different experimenter also allowed for blind post-testing, which others have noted is particularly important in studies of pretend because results obtained with knowledgeable experimenters have not always replicated with those obtained with blind ones