AP PSYCHOLOGY

COGNITION

THINKING AND LANGUAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In Wolfgang Kohler’s experiment, the chimpanzee Sultan retrieved a long stick with a short stick to retrieve a piece of fruit. Sultan was able to reach the fruit as a result of:
A
insight
B
a fixation
C
artificial intelligence
D
trial and error
E
the availability heuristic
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In one experiment, Köhler placed bananas outside Sultan’s cage and two bamboo sticks inside his cage which needed to be put together to reach the bananas. Köhler demonstrated the solution to Sultan by putting his fingers into the end of one of the sticks.

Detailed explanation-2: -He concluded from the experiments that there was a correlation between intelligence and brain development. Köhler was very vocal in the psychological community and took stances against both introspection and behaviorism.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wolfgang Kohler, a psychologist trained at the University of Berlin, was working at a primate research facility maintained by the Prussian Academy of Sciences in the Canary Islands when the First World War broke out. Marooned there, he had at his disposal a large outdoor pen and nine chimpanzees of various ages.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the 1920s, German psychologist Wolfgang Kohler was studying the behavior of apes. He designed some simple experiments that led to the development of one of the first cognitive theories of learning, which he called insight learning. In this experiment, Kohler hung a piece of fruit just out of reach of each chimp.

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