Insightful Learning

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.

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.

Epiphany

Another noteworthy term that describes insight learning is "epiphany." Epiphanies involve a sudden revelation or abrupt awareness bringing seemingly chaotic data into symmetry.

Eureka!• Insight learning also

involves the "I have found it!" feeling or "eureka“.

• Insight learning is also expressed as the "Aha moment,"

Can you leave two complete squares only, by taking away two sticks from the pattern shown below?

Answer is…..

Insightful learning depends on certain factors:

intelligence

Learning Situation

Initial Efforts

Repetition

&

Generalization

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.

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.

5. Trial and Error Learning: Fit for learning motor skills, language &

arithmetic skills.

Insightful Learning: Fit for learning scientific involving creative

thinking understanding.

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.

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.

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.

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.

EUREKA! It is done!Group members:

Raisa Clemente UbasLezyl C. ColosoKeiko Mizuno

Kristel Mae Lao

BSPS 2A