Your Brain Does More
Different Ways of Learning (Preferences)
Right Learning Moves
Smart in your own way. (Intelligences)
Words that Unlock Your Brain (Key Words)
100

These learners make learning happen instead of waiting for it.

What are active learners?

100

This preference asks whether you like to study in quiet or with background noise.

What is environmental preference for sound?

100

This stage involves actually doing or experiencing something directly.

What is the Dunn and Dunn learning preferences model?

100

This intelligence involves understanding the natural world and its patterns.

What is naturalist intelligence?

100

Something taken for granted—a guess or supposition

What is assumption?

200

This kind of thinking develops ideas that are original and useful.

What is creative thinking?

200

This preference asks whether you work best alone, with a partner, or in a group.

What is sociological preference?

200

This stage involves thinking back on what happened.

What is reflective observation?

200

This intelligence is strong in language, reading, speaking, and writing.

What is verbal-linguistic intelligence?

200

Information or facts used in thinking or learning

What is data?

300

This kind of thinking evaluates and judges ideas, assumptions, and actions.

What is critical thinking?

300

This learning preference asks whether you are a visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learner.

What is perceptual preference?

300

This stage involves forming a theory or concept.

What is abstract conceptualization?

300

This intelligence involves coordination, movement, and physical skill.

What is bodily-kinesthetic intelligence?

300

Something that causes a response, feeling, or thought

What are stimuli?

400

This term means actively paying attention to your own thinking.

What is metacognition?

400

This preference asks whether you are a big-picture thinker or detail-oriented thinker.

What is global-analytic preference?

400

This stage involves trying out a plan or idea.

What is active experimentation?

400

This intelligence is the ability to understand and work well with other people.

What is interpersonal intelligence?

400

A practical person who applies ideas in practice

What is pragmatist?

500

This is the mental map or outline of how you think about something.

What is a schema?

500

This model includes environmental, emotional, sociological, physical, and psychological preferences.

What is the Dunn and Dunn learning preferences model?

500

These are the four learning styles in Kolb’s model.

What are theorist, pragmatist, activist, and reflector?

500

This intelligence involves self-awareness, reflection, and goal setting.

What is intrapersonal intelligence?

500

Muscle sense—the sensation of movement

What is kinesthetic?

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