Gestalt & Insight Learning
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With reference to the 'Insight Learning Theory' propounded by Wolfgang Köhler based on his experiments with a chimpanzee named Sultan, which of the following statements most accurately explains the essential and cognitive characteristics of this learning process?
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According to Gestalt psychologists (Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, and Wolfgang Köhler), learning is not a mechanical or gradual process, but rather a reorganization of the cognitive field. Köhler's experiments proved that when an organism faces a problem, instead of viewing its partial parts, it analyzes the entire situation (Gestalt) and suddenly achieves insight through an 'Aha! Experience'.
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