Psychology
Psychology
5th Edition
ISBN: 9780134715308
Author: Ciccarelli
Publisher: PEARSON
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Kohler’s insight theory demonstrated that animals can learn by insight. Wolfgang Kohler was a Gestalt psychologist who studied on the chimpanzee named “sultan”. The Sultan was faced with the problem of how to get to a banana that was placed just out of his reach outside the cage. Insight theory of learning can be defined as the  sudden perception of relationships among various parts of the problem to come quickly.

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