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The Cognitive Profile Inventory: Dead Tree Version or interactive version
It. is recommended that you take the inventory prior to reading about what it means.
The Bipolar Descriptors: Sensor / iNtuitive | Thinker / Feeler
The Quadrants: | SF | ST | NF | NT |
Study Techniques by quadrant: | SF study | ST study | NF study | NT study |
Teaching Strategies by quadrant: | SF teaching | ST teaching | NF teaching | NT teaching
Intuitive Thinker: The NT Learner
The NT is a thinker, dwelling mostly on the abstractions, and therefore approaches concepts first, before thetrivia of the details.
The intuitive thinker (NT) is characterized by logic, patterns and understanding, needs to process newmaterial alone before discussion, and must see the overall picture prior to processing details to enhanceunderstanding. When studying alone, the NT should first look over new material to get the overall picture.Once the global concept is grasped, the pieces fit in naturally.
The NT must look for patterns in the information, in order to facilitate recall, using mnemonics and othermemory devices. Since NT's often do not memorize well or easily (that is, if the ST is not a subdominant),they must understand the concepts in order to figure out what they will not otherwise recall.
The intuitive learners, NT and NF, work most effectively in the abstract, and need to begin new materialwith a global perspective. This direction is foreign for most educators, so the intuitive learner will generallybe assisted by reading the material prior to class in order to glimpse the whole concept for a starting point.
The NT is perhaps ideally suited for a career in research sciences, but often does not find academic successearly due to natural dislike of repetition and memorization which is so characteristic of our schools.
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