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Visual Learners: What's Your Learning Style?

There are four main learning styles: visual, auditory, verbal, and physical/kinesthetic. Visual learners prefer using images and maps to organize information. Auditory learners remember words through associating them with music or rhythm. Verbal learners enjoy reading, writing, and word games. Physical learners prefer participating in hands-on activities like sports or crafts to learn. Some people use a combination of styles depending on the environment, and additional styles include logical, social, and solitary learners.

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Visual Learners: What's Your Learning Style?

There are four main learning styles: visual, auditory, verbal, and physical/kinesthetic. Visual learners prefer using images and maps to organize information. Auditory learners remember words through associating them with music or rhythm. Verbal learners enjoy reading, writing, and word games. Physical learners prefer participating in hands-on activities like sports or crafts to learn. Some people use a combination of styles depending on the environment, and additional styles include logical, social, and solitary learners.

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What's Your Learning Style?

Learning, like clothing, is not a matter of "one size fits all."  People learn in a number of
ways. The names given to these learning styles vary from researcher to researcher, but
the four predominant styles are generally known as visual, auditory, verbal, and
physical (or kinesthetic). 

Visual Learners
Visual learners like to use images, pictures, colors, and maps to organize information.
They can easily picture an object, a plan, or even a goal in their heads. They have a
good sense of where things are in space, which gives them a good sense of direction.
Visual learners are comfortable with maps and rarely get lost. When they walk out of an
elevator, they instinctively know which way to turn. You'll often find visual learners at
a blackboard or drawing on paper, especially with colors. Even when they dress, they
tend to choose clothes carefully, especially when it comes to balancing colors. Among
visual learners you'll find photographers, architects, and filmmakers.

Auditory Learners
Do you play music while you work? Do you sing or play a musical instrument, or notice
the music in the background while watching a movie or TV? If you answered yes,
you're probably an auditory learner. Auditory learners memorize words or facts by
associating them with parts of a song or a particular rhythm. They also use particular
types of music to create the right mood or state of mind for learning. Auditory learners
tend to use phrases like "That sounds right" or "That rings a bell."

Verbal Learners
Verbal learners love to read and write. They enjoy word games because they tend to
know the meanings of a lot of words. A key aid for verbal learners is the use of
mnemonics, which are rhymes, phrases, or songs that help them remember facts and
figures. Among verbal learners you might find journalists, politicians, radio and
television announcers, and writers. Do you find yourself memorizing a clever phrase
you heard during a conversation and writing it down? Then you might be a verbal
learner.

Physical Learners
If you like using flashcards for memorization or learn better by doing, then you are a
physical (or "kinesthetic") learner. Physical learners like to participate in sports, do
exercise, work in their gardens, or learn a craft like woodcarving or pottery. They tend
to use their hands and body language to communicate. They like to "jump into"
learning, pulling apart a machine and then putting it back together rather than reading
about it in a manual.

Some people strongly prefer one of these styles while others use many at once,
depending on their learning environment. In addition, researchers have also
identified logical learners, who reason things out, social learners, who do best learning
in groups, and solitary learners, who prefer to study and work alone. So, which one are
you?

* Manual: small book of instruction

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