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    Wolfgang Köhler was a German-American psychologist who was one of the founders of Gestalt psychology. He is known for proposing the theory of insight learning and conducting experiments on problem solving with chimpanzees. In his experiments, Köhler would hang fruit out of reach of chimpanzees and provide objects for them to use to reach the fruit. The chimpanzees would stop, think, and then suddenly realize they could stack boxes or use sticks to solve the problem. Insight learning refers to suddenly understanding the solution without repeated trials, and involves perceiving new logical and causal relationships based on previous experience.

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    Wolfgang Köhler was a German-American psychologist who was one of the founders of Gestalt psychology. He is known for proposing the theory of insight learning and conducting experiments on problem solving with chimpanzees. In his experiments, Köhler would hang fruit out of reach of chimpanzees and provide objects for them to use to reach the fruit. The chimpanzees would stop, think, and then suddenly realize they could stack boxes or use sticks to solve the problem. Insight learning refers to suddenly understanding the solution without repeated trials, and involves perceiving new logical and causal relationships based on previous experience.

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    Wolfgang Köhler was a German-American psychologist who was one of the founders of Gestalt psychology. He is known for proposing the theory of insight learning and conducting experiments on problem solving with chimpanzees. In his experiments, Köhler would hang fruit out of reach of chimpanzees and provide objects for them to use to reach the fruit. The chimpanzees would stop, think, and then suddenly realize they could stack boxes or use sticks to solve the problem. Insight learning refers to suddenly understanding the solution without repeated trials, and involves perceiving new logical and causal relationships based on previous experience.

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    FOUNDER OF GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY

    The theory of Insight Learning was first proposed by German-American psychologist, one of the founders
    of Gestalt psychology, Wolfgang Köhler. Insight learning is among various methods of Behavioral learning
    process, which is a fundamental aspect of Behavioral Psychology. Gestalt Psychologists focused on
    perception and on how perception influences thinking and problem solving. The word ''gestalt'' means
    the ''unified or meaningful whole.''

    GAINED FAME

    The psychologist gained fame with his studies on cognitive processing involved in problem-solving by
    animals. In 1921 Köhler became head of the psychological institute and professor of philosophy at the
    University of Berlin, directing a series of investigations that explored many aspects of Gestalt theory and
    publishing Gestalt Psychology (1929).

    DEFINITION

    Insight learning refers to the sudden realization of the solution of any problem without repeated trials or
    continuous practices. To further elaborate on its definition, insight learning is the type of learning, in
    which one draws on previous experience and also seems to involve a new way of perceiving logical and
    cause-and-effect relationship. is an awareness of key relationships between cause and effect, which
    comes after assembling the relevant information and either overt or covert testing of possibilities. All
    discoveries and inventions have taken place through insight. Of course the discoverer possessed a
    complete knowledge of the whole situation in peace-meal. Learning through such insight is called insight
    learning.

    HOW INSIGHT LEARNING WAS EXPERIMENTED

    Kohler hung a piece of fruit just out of reach of each chimp. He then provided the chimps with either
    two sticks or three boxes, then waited and watched. Kohler noticed that after the chimps realized they
    could not simply reach or jump up to retrieve the fruit, they stopped, had a seat, and thought about how
    they might solve the problem. Then after a few moments, the chimps stood up and proceeded to solve
    the problem. The chimps would solve the problem by stacking the boxes on top of each other, which
    allowed them to climb up to the top of the stack of boxes and reach the fruit.

    PRINCIPLES

    1. Identifying the problem.

    2. Organizing the pain of action.

    3. Using insight.

    TWO MAJOR CHARACTERISTICS


    The first is that insight represents seeing clearly into the heart or essence of a situation, and the other is
    that we do not do this by a step-by-step process, but partially by unconscious processes. Although
    insight learning suggests sudden realization of a solution, insight is not a process that occurs out of the
    blue.

    •First part of the path comes from intense research or work pertaining to some domain, which is termed
    as the pre-solution period.

    •The time of idleness in which the idea or concept seems to spontaneously pop up is the next step.

    Having the idea or concept is not enough; it needs to be taken back to the thinking and working stage so
    that it can be materialized. There needs to be a certain basis for insight to appear, as insight depends
    upon the time and events that take place in order for the material to be transformed from initial stimuli
    into insightful thought.

    SOME OTHER CHARACTERISTICS

    •Insight leads to change in perception.

    •Insight is sudden.

    •Understanding plays important role n insight learning.

    •Insight is related with higher order animals and not with inferior animals.

    •Age influences insight learning. Adults are better learner than children.

    •Past experience and perceptual organization is important in perception.

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