Essay Archive - Wolfgang Kohler's Experiment and Insight Learning
Wolfgang Kohler's Experiment and Insight Learning
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 various parts of a problem.
Wolfgang Kohler, a Gestalt psychologist who was born in 1887 and died
in 1967, used chimpanzees in the study of insight learning. Kohler who was born
in Revel, Estonia and moved....
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