Practice mode Psychology

In Wolfgang Kohler’s experiments, a chimpanzee in a cage with three boxes and a banana hung high overhead first tries jumping, then looks around and stacks the boxes to climb up to the fruit. What does this illustrate?

Correct answer C. insight learning

Explanation

Insight learning is the sudden grasp of a solution by mentally reorganising the elements of a problem, rather than by gradual trial and error.

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