Wolfgang Kohler's Experiment And Insight Learning
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Have you ever been trying to figure something out that you just can't
piece together and then all of a sudden have it hit you? If you have, you've
experienced the type of learning called insight learning.
The term insight refers to solving a problem through understanding the
relationships variou ....
Middle of paper
.... reach the banana. After fiddling with the sticks for an hour or
so, Sultan happened to align the sticks and in a flash of sudden inspiration,
fitted the two sticks together and pulled in the banana. Kohler was impressed
by Sultan's rapid “perception of relationships” and used the term insight to
describe it. He noted that such insights are not learned gradually through
reinforced trials. They seemed to occur in a flash when the elements a problem
are set up appropriately.
In another ....
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