Types of learners
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The document describes 5 different learning styles: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and gustatory. It provides characteristics of each style. Visual learners prefer seeing and reading, auditory learners prefer listening and talking, and kinesthetic learners prefer doing hands-on activities. Olfactory learners associate smells with memories, while gustatory learners learn through tasting. The document asks which learning style and characteristics best match the reader.
Types of learners
- 3. Visual Audiotory Kinesthetic Olfactory Gustatory
- 4. Visual learning style - This means you learn by seeing and looking
- 5. Characteristics of Visual styles: Learn through seeing and reading Observes rather than talks or acts Prefer written directions Often good readers Usually a good speller Memorizes by seeing graphics and pictures Remember faces
- 6. Auditory learning style – this means you learn by hearing and listening
- 7. Characteristics of auditory style: Learn through listening and talking Remember what they hear better than what they see Prefer to listen to instructions Enjoys Talking Enjoy music Talks to self aloud They remember what they hear more clearly than what they see or feel Discuss what you have learned with other
- 8. Kinesthetic learning style – this means you learn by touching and doing
- 9. Characteristic of Kinesthetic styles: Learn through doing Takes notes or lecture Highlight or underline Enjoy doing activities Reading is not a priority Uses hands while talking Poor speller Likes to solve problems by physically working through them
- 10. Olfactory Learner - refers to sense of smell and taste.
- 11. Characteristics of Olfactory Learners: Learners best though the sense of smell and taste Associates a particular smell with specific past memories Finds that smells add to learning They identify smells
- 12. Gustatory learning – You learn by tasting
- 13. How do you like to learn? Which characteristics do you know about Auditory learners?