2. What is Insightful Learning?
• Insight learning is a type
of learning or problem solving
that happens all-of-a-sudden
through understanding the
relationships of various parts of
a problem rather than through
trial and error.
3. Wolfgang Kohler and his contribution
to Insightful Learning
• Wolfgang
Köhler was a
psychologist who
conducted
experiments in which
insight learning was
observed in animal
behavior.
4. Eureka!
• Insight learning also
involves the "I have
found it!" feeling or
"eureka“.
• Insight learning is also
expressed as the "Aha
moment"
13. 5 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TRIAL AND ERROR
LEARNING and INSIGHFUL LEARNING
1. Trial & Error Learning:
Just a process of habit formation. No mental processes are
involved.
Insightful Learning:
Higher mental processes like, comprehension perception of
relationships analysis generalization are involved.
2. Trial and Error Learning:
Success is due to ‘chance’ after much trial & error.
Insightful Learning:
Sudden awareness or insight after implicit trial & error.
14. 3. Trial and Error Learning:
Learning is gradual & needs practice.
Insightful Learning:
Insight is ‘sudden’ & doesn’t need practice.
4. Trial and Error Learning:
Acquisition, retention & transfer of learning are not
possible.
Insightful Learning:
Acquisition, retention & transfer of learning is
possible.
15. 5. Trial and Error Learning:
Fit for learning motor skills, language &
arithmetic skills.
Insightful Learning:
Fit for learning scientific involving creative
thinking understanding.
16. Kohler’s Experiment Involving
Insightful Learning
An experiment was conducted by Kohler to
show the occurrence and importance of
perceptual organization and insight in
learning.
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19. So how Insightful Learning Occurs:
1. The nature of the situation is very important for
insightful learning.
2. The organism reacts to the whole situation, not
to its component parts.
3. The organism perceives the relationships
between means and the goal, and restructures
the perceptual field.
20. 4. Insight follows a period of trial and error
behavior.
5. The insightful solution comes all on a
sudden.
6. Once the insightful solution is reached, the
organism shows high degree of retention
and transfer to similar problems.
7. Insight is closely related to the organism's
capacity to learn.
21. Educational Implications of Insight
Theory of Learning:
An individual has insight into a learning
situation to the extent that he is able to
understand the situation as a whole. A
solution to a problem is an example of
insight that results from integration of all
the mental processes. All the higher
learning takes place by this method.
22. EUREKA! It is done!
Group members:
Raisa Clemente Ubas
Lezyl C. Coloso
Keiko Mizuno
Kristel Mae Lao
BSPS 2A
