Flexi Says: Insight learning is learning from past experiences and reasoning. It usually involves coming up with new ways to solve problems. Insight learning generally happens quickly. An animal has a sudden flash of insight. Insight learning requires relatively great intelligence. For example, some experiments were done on elephants using bamboo sticks to get a fruit. In the first experiment, the fruit is placed up out of reach of the test subject elephants and they set out some bamboo sticks, hoping one of the elephants would try to use the stick to knock the fruit down so they could eat it. Every attempt at this failed. In the second experiment, the team placed the fruit out of reach as before, but this time, tossed a heavy-duty cube into the enclosure. At first, nothing happened but after a few sessions, one of the elephants suddenly appeared to get an idea after studying the fruit for a few moments. He immediately toddled over the cube, then rolled it over to a position just below the fruit, stepped up with his front feet so as to prop himself up, then very easily grabbed the fruit.
