Learning Styles Charice August PSY-102 Dr. L

Learning Styles Charice August PSY-102 Dr. L

1. SOCIAL

   • Empathetic
     • understands how to help others learn which helps their own memory retention
       • Would do well in counseling, sales or teaching jobs
   • Good communication skills
     • Study groups are best

2. VISUAL

   • Also known as auditory/musical, notices various pitches and tones
     • Will thrive as musicians, language teachers, engineers
   • listen to and hear information to help process it

3. VERBAL/READING AND WRITING

   • Enjoys reading, writing, word play, benefits from mnemonic devices, or role-playing
     • Well suited to careers as journalists, writers or politicians and administrators

4. KINESTHETIC/PHYSICAL

   • Hands-on learning
     • would enjoy careers such as EMT, or in the entertainment industry as actors, singers etc.
   • Learn by doing better than watching

5. LOGICAL

   • Mathematical thinking, good with patterns and concepts
     • Will do well in math-related professions such as accounting or research
   • groups ideas into categories

6. AUDITORY

   • Uses images and symbols to see the relationships between ideas
     • Will thrive in careers such as architects, designers and engineers, or project managers
   • Learns via drawings, graphs, charts, any visual representation of a concept

7. SOLITARY

   • Likes to be alone to study
     • A quiet personal place
   • Needs as little distraction as possible
     • Can do well as an author, or researcher constantly alone with thoughts