1 © 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. McGraw-Hill Chapter Three Deciding To Know Yourself

2 © 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. McGraw-Hill 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 style

3 © 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. McGraw-Hill Aptitudes Aptitude –Natural or inborn trait and/or talent General aptitude tests: –Estimate verbal, numerical, spatial and some coordination skills

4 © 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. McGraw-Hill Abilities –What you can do –Increase with practice and decrease with disuse –Measured by performance on formal and informal evaluation tools

5 © 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. McGraw-Hill 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…

6 © 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. McGraw-Hill 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

7 © 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. McGraw-Hill 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

8 © 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. McGraw-Hill 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

9 © 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. McGraw-Hill Processing Preferences –Global Processing Traits include: Pattern recognition Recall of faces Recall of a song’s melody Spontaneous Synthesis Holistic overview

10 © 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. McGraw-Hill Your Multiple Intelligences Howard Gardner identified eight basic types of intelligences, which he called multiple intelligences 1.Verbal-linguistic 2.Logical-mathematical 3.Spatial 4.Bodily-kinesthetic 5.Musical 6.Interpersonal 7.Intrapersonal 8.Naturalist

11 © 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. McGraw-Hill 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