To help her class learn the state capitals and to reduce prejudice, an elementary school teacher divides the class into several ethnically diverse groups. She then gives each group member a different set of ten states and their capitals. After each student learns the ten capitals, she must teach them to the other members of the group. This is an example of ____.?

a. ?cognitive dissonance theory
b. ?the jigsaw technique
c. ?the matching hypothesis
d. ?an illusory correlation


ANSWER:
b

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