Logic:
Drawing conclusions based on logic: one thing following another in logical order. |
Intuitive:
Making leaps of insight, often based on incomplete patterns, hunches, feelings and visual images. |
Linear:
Thinking in terms of linked ideas, one thought directly following another, often leading to a convergent conclusion. |
Holistic:
Seeing whole things at once, perceiving the overall patterns and structures, often leading to divergent conclusions. |
Verbal:
Using words to name, describe, define. |
Nonverbal:
Awareness of things, but minimal connection with words. |
Temporal:
Keeping track of time, sequencing one thing after another. |
Nontemporal:
Without sense of time. |
Rational:
Drawing conclusions based on reason and facts. |
Nonrational:
Not requiring a basis of reason or facts; willingness to suspend judgment. |
Analytic:
Figuring things out step-by-step and part-by-part. |
Synthetic:
Putting things together to form wholes. |
Abstract:
Taking out a small bit of information and using it to represent the whole thing. |
Analogic:
Seeing relationship between things, understanding metaphoric relationships. |
Symbolic:
Using a symbol to stand for something. |
Concrete:
Relating to things as they are at the present moment |
Digital:
Using numbers as in counting.
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Spatial:
Seeing where things are in relation to other things, and how parts go together to form a whole. |
This information was derived from:
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain,
Betty Edwards, Jeremey Tarcher
1989, St. Martin Press
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