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What Is the Contact Hypothesis? What Has Research Shown About

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What is the contact hypothesis? What has research shown about this idea? Do you think this is a useful philosophy?


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Inverse Relationship

A correlation where an increase in one variable leads to a decrease in another variable, or vice versa.

Trial-And-Error

A problem-solving method involving repeated, varied attempts which are continued until success, or until the agent stops trying.

Formal Operational Thought

In Piaget’s theory, the fourth and final stage of cognitive development, characterized by more systematic logical thinking and by the ability to understand and systematically manipulate abstract concepts.

Metacognition

The awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes, often referred to as "thinking about thinking."

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