Insight learning theory is proposed by Wolfgang Kohler. Insight learning is the sudden understanding of the relation between a problem and a solution. By learning through insight, the correct solution not only appears seemingly out of nowhere but also repeated readily of subsequent presentations of that problem.

Insight Learning theory was given by Wolfgang Kohler, Kurt koffka and Max Wertheimer. This theory implies that when a particular situation is being learnt, it does not help to learn only it in parts but it helps to learn its whole. Learning is an exploration, purposeful and creative activity but not a trial and error method of activity.

Insight occurs in human learning when people recognize relationships (or make novel associations between objects or actions) that can help them solve new problems. Much of the scientific knowledge concerning insight derives from work on animal behaviour that was conducted by 20th-century German Gestalt psychologist Wolfgang Köhler.