Wolfgang Kohler's Experiment And Insight Learning

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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 top
of one another to reach the banana without being taught to do it.
It was also found that rats made cognitive maps, which are mental
representations or “pictures” of the elements in a learning situation, of the
mazes that they were going through. Not surprisingly, the rats learned the way
quicker on a route in which reinforcement was available. I guess that just goes
to show you that when you're interested in something, you will of retain the
information better and understand it too.
Here is a personal example of insight learning. One day I was playing a
game ...

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