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Learning - Thinking Style

Learning - Thinking
Style
 Refers to the preferred way an individual process information
 Describe a person’s typical mode of thinking, remembering or
problem solving
 Denotes tendency to behave in a certain manner
Learning - Thinking Style

 Style usually described as a personality dimension which


influences your attitudes, values and social interaction
Perspective about Learning -
Thinking Style

1. Sensory Preferences
2. Global-Analytic Continuum
Sensory Preferences
Sensory Preferences
 Individuals tend to gravitate toward one or 2 type of sensory
input and maintain a dominance on that senses.
Kinds of Sensory
Preferences
1. Visual Learners
 Learners must see their teacher’s actions and facial expression to
fully understand the content of a lesson.
 They may think in pictures and learn best from visual aids.
 Prefer to take detailed notes to absorb the information.
Sub-Division of Visual
Learner
Visual-Iconic
 More interested in visual imagery such as films, graphic displays
or pictures in order to solidify learning.
 Have good “picture memory” or iconic imagery and attend to
pictoral detail
Visual-Symbolic
 Comfortable with abstract symbolism such as mathematical
formulae or the written word.
 Like to read about things than hear about them
 Good abstract thinkers who do not require practical means for
learning.
2. Auditory Learners
 Learn best through verbal lectures, discussions, talking things
through and listening to what others have to say.
 Written information may have little meaning until it is heard
 Not easily distracted in their listening ability.
Sub-Division of Auditory
Learner
“Listeners”
 Remembers things said to them and make information as their
own.
“Talkers”
 One who prefer to talk and discuss.
 Find themselves talking to those around them.
 They tend to whisper comments to themselves.
3. Kinesthetic Learners
 Benefit much from hands-on approach,
actively exploring the physical world around
them.
 May become distracted by their need for
activity and exploration
 Prefer “learning by doing” preferring the use
of psychomotor skills.
 Tend to have good motor memory and motor
coordination.
Global-Analytic Continuum
1. Analytic Continuum
 Tend toward the linear, step-by-step processes of learning.
 See finits elements of patterns rather than the whole.
 “tree seers”
2. Global Continuum
 Tend towards non-linear thought and tend to see the whole
pattern rather than particle elements.
 Attention only to the overall structure and sometimes ignore
details.
 “forest seers”
 Global-Analytic Continuum is also called
Left/Right-brain Continuum. (Roger
Sperry)
 Left Brain dominant individual is portrayed
as a linear (analytic).
 Right-brain person is one who is viewed as
global, non-linear and holistic in thought
preferences.
 One side may be more dominant than the
other.
Successive Processor
(Left Brain)
 Prefers to learn in a step-by-step sequential format, beginning
with details leading to a conceptual understanding of a skill.
Simultaneous Processor
(Right Brain)
 Refers to learn beginning with the general concept and then going
on the specifics.

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