insight learning

a cognitive form of learning involving the mental rearrangement or restructuring of the elements in a problem to achieve a sudden understanding of the problem and arrive at a solution. Insight learning was described by Wolfgang Köhler in the 1920s, based on his observations of apes stacking boxes or using sticks to retrieve food, and was offered as an alternative to trial-and-error learning.

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May 9th 2024

effective dose (ED)

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