#InsightLearning

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Cognitive learning is a theory that defines learning as a behavioral change based on acquiring knowledge about the environment. Latent learning, insight learning, and learned helplessness are all part of cognitive learning. Latent learning is learning that can happen without reinforcement and then later affect behavior; the learning becomes clear when there is an incentive to display it. For example, a student might be taught how to multiply fractions but doesn’t demonstrate it until they take test. Insight learning is when you suddenly realize how to solve a problem. An example of this is someone who is stuck in traffic for a long time and then decides to take another route. Learned helplessness is not trying to get out of a situation because of past failures in attempts to do so; in other words, someone may feel like they have no control over a situation so they simply give up. An example of this is someone who has become discouraged with the political process, so they stop voting.