Different Learning Styles and Personality Types

Different Learning Styles and Personality Types

Your learning style – your mind’s particular way of taking in processing information – is as unique as you are (Carter, 38). This statement at the beginning of our weekly reading makes one really discover their abilities after doing the worksheets Personality Spectrum and Pathways to learning. I learned that I am an Interpersonal and an organizer personality. My Interpersonal intelligence is ability to relate to others, noticing their moods, motivations, and feelings (social activity, cooperative learning, and teamwork) (Carter, 39). I can communicate verbally and non-verbally, cooperating within a group, creating, maintaining relationships (Carter, 43). This is true in I am usually the person who someone comes to when he/she have a problem, needs help with creativity and wants help to find them a solution. I am easy to get along with, I want to teach, see thing from other’s perspectives.

Personality assessments help you understand how you respond to the world around you – including information, thoughts feelings, people, and events (Carter, 45). My Personality Spectrum says that I am an organizer; however I believe that I am also a giver. I like to plan, be dependable, organized and am confident, just a few traits from the personality spectrum diagram. I think that I am also a giver because I am emotional, caring, talkative, and honest. These traits assist with the Interpersonal Intelligences, an interpersonal relates to others (caring) communicates verbally (talkative), cooperative within a group (dependable).

My three choices of different learning styles are Verbal, Visual and Logical/Mathematical. A verbal intelligence person is analyzing own use of language, explaining, teaching, learning, using humor, convincing someone to do something (Carter, 43). A Visual person is recognizing relationships between objects, finding ones’ way in space and manipulating images (Carter, 43). A Logical/Mathematical...