An example of insight learning is a monkey is in a barred cage who, hours upon hours attempts with a stick tries to get a banana outside the cage. Realizing after a while that if he takes a second stick he's able to grasp the banana.
Look at Kohler's research on the mentality of apes. That will give you an idea. Basically, it tells how chimpanzees in tests, were able to look at a situation with no readily apparent solution, and...
If your a new person to a school and it's lunch time, and you finish with your lunch but you don't know where to put the tray you would follow someone who knows what their doing. So you learn off of...