Am I A Visual-Spatial Type Of Learner?

Do you learn more easily when presented with visual rather than auditory information?

Do you have difficulties with showing the sequence of a process, as you tend to see each task as a whole, rather than a product of several steps?

Are you a whole-picture thinker who sees the whole before acknowledging the details?

Do you think in pictures rather than in words?

Are you good at putting puzzles together?

Do you have vivid imaginations, and are you often good at coming up with unusual ways to solve problems?

Do you interpret pictures, graphs, and charts well?

Do you enjoy drawing, painting, and the visual arts?

Do you recognize patterns easily?

Based on your answers, it is not very likely that you are a visual-spatial type of learner. This type of learning style, or intelligence, is one of eight types of learning styles defined in Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences. People who are strong in visual-spatial intelligence, are good at perceiving, analyzing, and understanding visual information. They can picture concepts in their minds.

Based on your answers, you are displaying some signs of a visual-spatial type of learner. People who are strong in this learning style tend to think and learn visually. Because they focus on the big picture, they are likely to overlook the details. They tend to be great with directions as well as maps, videos, charts and pictures.

Based on your answers, you are showing the signs typically seen among individuals who have a visual-spatial type of learning style. People who are strong in visual-spatial intelligence learn best when taught using visual media and written or modeled instruction. They tend to have a good visual memory, but they do less well with auditory-sequential teaching methods. Careers you may be drawn to include physics, astronomy, engineering or surgery.