VISUAL THINKER

Visual thinking

                    Also called visual/spatial learning, picture thinking, or right brained learning, is the phenomenon of thinking through visual processing.

                     Visual thinking has been described as seeing words as a series of pictures. It is common in approximately 60%–65% of the general population. "Real picture thinkers", those persons who use visual thinking almost to the exclusion of other kinds of thinking, make up a smaller percentage of the population.

 Research by child development theorist Linda Kreger Silverman suggests that less than 30% of the population strongly uses visual/spatial thinking, another 45% uses both visual/spatial thinking and thinking in the form of words, and 25% thinks exclusively in words.

 According to Kreger Silverman, of the 30% of the general population who use visual/spatial thinking, only a small percentage would use this style over and above all other forms of thinking, and can be said to be 'true' "picture thinkers".

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What is your thinking style?

(visual, auditory, or kinesthetic) 

Know if your:

visual, auditory,kinesthetic

What is your thinking style?

         The world is made up of different types of thinkers. We use methods like seeing hearing and feeling to help our thought processes. We use all of these methods, but we are dominate in one or another. If you are speaking in public, or teaching a class, chances are that you had to learn about these types of thinkers: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic.

Visual 

         When a person that is dominate in using images to think, they see images when they are learning. A visual also learns best when images are shown with topics they are trying to learn about. Sixty percent of the population uses visualization to dominate their thought process.

Auditory 

Some people are dominate in hearing (auditory). These are people grasp information best by listening to someone speak, or verbal instructions. It is estimated that about twenty percent of the population is auditory. Sometimes, a person will not look you in the eyes when you are speaking.

While reasons for not looking at you in the eyes can be numerous, sometimes, it is because they are auditory. One clue that someone can be auditory is that they point their ears to you when you are talking. To test this, ask them some questions about what you said, and pay attention.

Kinesthetic  

A few others are dominate in feeling (Kinesthetic). A feeler learns best when they have hands on. Many times, a person that is kinesthetic will fiddle with things, like their hair, they twirl their pencil, they are just touching everything. Just because a person is fidgeting when you are speaking, it doesn’t always mean they are ignoring you, or distracted. Pay attention to what the person you suspect is kinesthetic is doing. Do they fidget most when you are speaking about a topic they find interesting? If so, chances are they are taking in what you are telling them. Give a person that is kinesthetic a chance to have hands on. 

Questions to ask to determine learning style

To determine someone’s learning style, ask a few questions. When you ask the questions, you can tell they it is not necessary to answer them, just think about the answer to your question. You should pay attention to the direction their eyes move, and take note. If they look mainly up, they are accessing information in the visual area of the brain, and they are visuals. If they look towards their ears, they are accessing the auditory part of their brain, and they are auditory. If they look down, they are accessing the feeling part of their brain, and they are kinesthetic.

Example Video

Remember there are visual, auditory, and kinesthetic.  A person that is dominate in visual will look up to access the part of their brain to pull up pictures. A person that is auditory will look towards their ears to access the part of their brain to remember sounds. A person that is kinesthetic will look down to access the part of their brain that feels.

A visual learns or listens best with images. An auditory learns or listens best with listening. A person that is kinesthetic learns or listens best when they have hands on, or they are feeling something.

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