Wolfgang Kohler's Experiment And Insight Learning

Part I of Essay
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 ....

Part II of Essay
.... 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 experiment boxes were put in a room with a banana hanging from the ceiling. The chimps found out that they could stack the boxes on t ....