CHAPTER 2

Three key factors that define a person are personality, ability, and how a person learns. An individual’s personality is the way we characterize that person. Some have a pleasant personality while others may be abrasive. Some may be loud while others may be quiet. We often use a series of assessments to assist in the classification of a person’s personality. The MBTI includes: Extroverts (outgoing) and introverts (reserved) describe how people relate to others Sensing or intuitive Thinking or feeling Perceiving or judging Another classification of personality, Type A (always going) and Type B (laid back), describes how people act. Ability is defined in two ways––physical ability and intellectual ability. Physical ability includes ability to perform physical activities such as lifting, running, dexterity, stamina, etc. Intellectual ability means ability to perform mental activities such as critical thinking and math. Learning can occur in several ways. Classical conditioning makes learning passive. Operant conditioning makes learning active. Social learning means learning through experience. Learning styles describe the way we learn. They include: Bodily-kinesthetic learning, which happens through experience (by doing) Visual-spatial learning, which happens when people remember what they have seen Verbal-linguistic learning, which happens when people remember what they hear and say Logical-mathematical learning, which occurs when people reflect on concepts