-Introduction to Learning Styles

There are various types of learning styles and everyone learns in a different way, no one else would learn the exact same way as you. There are several benefits to discovering how you process your information. Your learning style can influence your level of learning success. Most people are a different mixture of styles and preferences and they may change depending on the situation. Your styles guide the way you learn. They also change the way you internally represent experiences, the way you recall information, and even the words you choose. Each learning style uses different parts of the brain, by involving more of the brain during learning, and we then remember more of what we learn.

Visual (spatial) which is where the visual learners work more effectively in a visual environment and that they prefer using pictures, images, maps drawings and spatial understanding

Aural (auditory-musical) which is where you would prefer using sounds or music

Verbal (linguistic) where you would like to prefer using words, both in speech and writing, and which is where verbal learners would be more effective with the written tasks, instructions and guidelines

Physical (kinesthetic) where you would prefer using your body, like your hands and your sense of touch

Logical (mathematical) where you prefer using logic, and your reasoning and systems

Social (interpersonal) where you would prefer to learn in a group or just with other people

Solitary (intrapersonal) where you would prefer to work alone and use self-study

There are various ways where you can detect a person’s preferred learning style in simple ways so that we can enhance the effectiveness of our communication once we are aware of them, like watching there eye movements when they are thinking or answering a question, or another one way is by there common vocabulary.