Editing Insight (section)

{{Short description|Understanding of a specific cause and effect in a specific context}}
{{Other uses}}
'''Insight''' is the understanding of a specific [[causality|cause and effect]] within a particular context.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}} The term insight can have several related meanings:
*a piece of information
*the act or result of understanding the inner nature of things or of seeing [[Intuition (knowledge)|intuitively]] (called {{transliteration|grc|[[wikt:noesis|noesis]]}} in Greek)
*an [[introspection]]
*the power of acute observation and [[Deductive reasoning|deduction]], discernment, and [[perception]], called intellection or {{transliteration|grc|[[nous|noesis]]}}
*an understanding of cause and effect based on the identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, system, context, or scenario (see [[artificial intelligence]])

An insight that manifests itself suddenly, such as understanding how to solve a difficult problem, is sometimes called by the [[German language|German]] word {{lang|de|[[Eureka effect|Aha-Erlebnis]]}}. The term was coined by the German psychologist and theoretical linguist [[Karl Bühler]]. It is also known as an [[epiphany (feeling)|epiphany]], [[Eureka effect|eureka moment]], or (for crossword solvers) the penny dropping moment (PDM).<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Friedlander|first1=Kathryn J.|last2=Fine|first2=Philip A.|year=2016|title=The Grounded Expertise Components Approach in the Novel Area of Cryptic Crossword Solving|journal=Frontiers in Psychology| language=en |volume=7 |pages= 567| doi= 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00567|pmid=27199805|pmc=4853387|issn=1664-1078|doi-access=free}}</ref> Sudden sickening realisations often identify a problem rather than solving it, so ''Uh-oh'' rather than ''Aha'' moments are seen in negative insight.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Hill|first1=Gillian|last2=Kemp|first2=Shelly M.|date=2016-02-01|title=Uh-Oh! What Have We Missed? A Qualitative Investigation into Everyday Insight Experience|journal=The Journal of Creative Behavior |volume= 52| issue= 3| language=en|pages=201–211|doi=10.1002/jocb.142|issn=2162-6057 |url= http://bear.buckingham.ac.uk/103/4/Hill_Kemp_2016_Insight.pdf}}</ref> A further example of negative insight is chagrin which is annoyance at the obviousness of a solution that was missed up until the (perhaps too late) point of insight,<ref name="Gick1995">{{Cite book |last1= Gick |first1= Mary L.|last2=Lockhart|first2=Robert S.|title=The nature of insight|editor-last=Sternberg|editor-first=Robert J.|editor2-last=Davidson|editor2-first=J.E.|chapter-url=http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1994-98855-006| chapter= Cognitive and affective components of insight|year=1995|publisher= MIT Press|pages=197–228|language=en|access-date=2017-11-13}}</ref> an example of this being Homer Simpson's catchphrase exclamation, [[D'oh!]].