Cognitive Learning:

• Cognitive Learning proposes that Learners utilizes mental process and memory to
make decision about behavior.

• Cognitive Learning Theory is the study of thought processes that underlie learning.

Some kinds of cognitive learning are:

 Insight Learning
 Latent Learning
 Observational Learning

Insight Learning:

Kohler, a Gestalt psychologist, assumes that learning involves cognition, i.e, understanding.

He believed that learning is fundamentally a process of perceptual reorganization and that it it

does not always occur on a trial and error basis.

In one of his experiments, a chimpanzee was confined in a cage with a banana placed outside,
some distance away. Inside the cage there were two sticks so fashioned that the end of one
could be inserted into the end of the other to make one long stick. Neither stick by itself was
of sufficient length to reach the banana but when both were used together as a single long
stick the banana could be pulled to the cage. He observed that animal at first tried to reach
through the bars to the banana. Not succeeded at this, after some minutes, one of the sticks
was employed but this too failed. Thus a silent period followed, suddenly the animal seized
the sticks. He used the term ‘’Insight’’ to refer to the sudden solution of problems.