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Definition of Trial and error
1. Noun. Experimenting until a solution is found.
Definition of Trial and error
1. Noun. The process of finding a solution to a problem by trying many possible solutions and learning from mistakes until a way is found. ¹
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Medical Definition of Trial and error
1. The apparently random, haphazard, hit-or-miss exploratory activity which often precedes the acquisition of new information or adjustments; it may be overt, as in a rat running in a maze, or covert (vicarious), as when one thinks of various ways of coping with a situation. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trial And Error
Literary usage of Trial and error
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Human Behavior: A First Book in Psychology for Teachers by Stephen Sheldon Colvin, William Chandler Bagley (1913)
"Find in your own experience an example of the "trial-and- error" method of ...
In what sense does " trial and error" still persist, even though "free ideas" ..."
2. Experiments in Educational Psychology by Daniel Starch (1917)
"By trial and error, that is, by making random attempts until by chance some
attempts are ... The most fundamental of these is the trial and error method. ..."
3. Mind in Evolution by Leonard Trelawney Hobhouse (1901)
"THE METHOD OF trial and error WE have now to ask whether there is any evidence
that this stage of intelligence is attained by any animals other than man. 1. ..."
4. The Learning Process by Stephen Sheldon Colvin (1911)
"The primitive method of learning in the case of a child is the simple method of
trial and error. Imitation in its various forms plays an important rôle, ..."
5. The Next Step: A Plan for Economic World Federation by Scott Nearing (1922)
"Trying Things Out A SOCIETY, like the individuals of which it is composed, learns
first by trial and error. The earliest lessons that the human race ..."
6. An Introduction to High School Teaching by Stephen Sheldon Colvin (1917)
"Methods of Restricting the Field of Trial and Error in Learning. — It is the
problem of the teacher in guiding the pupil to master correctly some act of ..."
7. Methods of Teaching in High Schools by Samuel Chester Parker (1920)
"Other investigations illustrating trial and error. — In order to bring out more
clearly the part played by the method of trial and accidental success in ..."
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