Human Behaviours

CHARACTERISTICS OF LEARNING! 

 
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There are a number of factors in combination that affect the way in which an individual learns new information.
Major factors contributing to your learning style include:

• Sensory Modalities: Auditory, Visually, and Kinesthetic
• Reasoning Types: deductive, inductive
• Learning Environment: interpersonal (working with others), interpersonal (working alone)
  
  Sensory Modalities
  
  The Senses:
  Auditory-Listening:
  Prefer verbal instructions to written ones.
  Is comfortable using spoken reinforcement mentally as well as aloud?
  
  Visually-Seeing:
  Reading-Visualizing
  Does well with reading comprehension?
  Prefers maps to verbal directions.
  
  Kinesthetic-Moving:
  Touching - hands-on
  Writing things down clarifies thoughts.
  Likes to draw pictures.
  Enjoys working with hands-likes lab classes.
  
  Reasoning Type:
  Deductive reasoning:
  Studies premise first, then draw conclusions.
  Sees big picture first, then looks for details.
  Inductive reasoning:
  Likes to see examples first when learning new information before developing an overview.
  Prefers to learn game rules as it is played, not beforehand.