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person's individual learning style is an important key for reaching learning
potential. While learning style is based primarily upon auditory, visual,
kinesthetic, and tactile components, it can also encompass other learner
preferences. These additional learning preferences are explored further
on the pages that follow this one.
Learning
style can be based upon whether a person processes information sequentially
or analytically rather than in a holistic, simultaneous, global fashion.
"It is important to recognize not only individual behaviors, but
to explore and examine the whole of each person's inclinations toward
learning," (Dunn,
Thies, & Honigsfeld, 2001).
Other aspects
of individual learning style include emotional, environmental, sociological,
psychological, and physiological preferences. These preferences are part
of the Dunn, Dunn, and Price Learning Styles Inventory. A good visual
representation of these additional factors was created by Susan Rundle
in the following graphic, used with permission, and found on the www.LearningStyles.net
website:

Let's examine
each of these learning styles / preferences in more detail..
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