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Chapter ThreeChapter Three

Deciding To Know Yourself

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Learning Outcomes• How to tell the difference between

aptitudes and abilities• The effect of your values on decision

making• How to identify the ways you learn best• Your sensory preferences• Your learning preferences• Multiple intelligences• How to adapt to your instructor's teaching

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Aptitudes• Aptitude

– Natural or inborn trait and/or talent• General aptitude tests:

– Estimate verbal, numerical, spatial and some coordination skills

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Abilities• Abilities

– What you can do– Increase with practice and decrease

with disuse– Measured by performance on formal

and informal evaluation tools

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Values • Values

– Are personal beliefs and standards that are reflections of your experiences

• Know what you value• Examples:

– Comfort, beauty, knowledge, love, power, social life, trust, etc…

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Environmental Preferences

• Environmental preferences– Can be just as important as what you

learn and how you learn it• Examples: Lighting, structure, sound, and

visual

• Accommodating your preferences adds to your learning efficiency and effectiveness

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Sensory Preferences• Sensory preferences

– Involve the way or ways in which you like to acquire information

• Different types of learners – Visual Learner– Auditory Learner– Tactile/kinesthetic learner

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Processing Preferences• Two ways your brain processes

information

– Logical Processing Traits include:• Language (speech and writing)• Recall of names• Recall of words in a song• Planning• math• time

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Processing Preferences– Global Processing Traits include:

• Pattern recognition• Recall of faces• Recall of a song’s melody• Spontaneous• Synthesis• Holistic overview

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Your Multiple Intelligences

• Howard Gardner identified eight basic types of intelligences, which he called multiple intelligences

1. Verbal-linguistic2. Logical-mathematical3. Spatial4. Bodily-kinesthetic5. Musical6. Interpersonal7. Intrapersonal8. Naturalist

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Your Instructor’s Style • Remember:

– Instructors vary in the ways in which they structure their classes or online course

– College faculty are different from high school teachers

• Evaluate your instructor’s style and figure out how you are going to learn from him or her