| insight | Self-understanding as to the motives and reasons behind one's own actions or those of another's. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| insight learning | The grasp of the solution to a problem without the intervening series of the trial and error steps that are associated with most types of learning (e.g., a monkey housed behind the bars of a cage who, without proceeding through countless hours of futile attempts with one stick or the other, fits two sticks together to retrieve a banana outside the distance measured by either stick alone). (05 Mar 2000) |
| intellectual aura | A dreamy, detached, or reminiscent aura. Synonym: reminiscent aura. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intellectual property | Property, such as patents, trademarks, and copyright, that results from creative effort. The patent and copyright clause (art. 1, sec. 8, cl. 8) of the united states constitution provides for promoting the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors, the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries. (12 Dec 1998) |