Intuitive/ Sensory continuum

[BB]

Learning style is another continuum that is mentioned in my old PT school notes. I'm not talking so much about visual vs. auditory vs. demo.

My prof. looks for where people fall on the continuum of Intuitive/Sensing. I believe he uses the Keirsey temperament sorter. This information is used in attempt to ascertain what treatment style the patient will most likely identify with.

For example, a person who scores high on the intuitive end may be more likely to "get" Feldenkrais, where as a sensing individual may be more likely to "buy" a more biomedical language.

Any thoughts?

Cory

[nari]

Hi Cory

I had a look at the Keirsey sites but note that they have gone 'commercial' and wanted all sorts of information about me; so I hightailed out of there.

I have done the MBTI (MBPI?) twice as part of courses; and am ambivalent about these categories. Sure, I fitted neatly into my category, but am still skeptical.

I'd need to know what the test actually is, before commenting.

How would we know whether a patient was intuitive or sensing?

Nari

[EricM]

Hi Cory,
Learning styles happens to be the topic of my masters course this semester.
Here are some excerpts from my notes:


Sensing learners tend to like learning facts, intuitive learners often prefer discovering possiblities and relationships.
Sensors often like solving problems by well-established methods and dislike complications and surprises; intuitors like innovation and dislike repetition. Sensors are more likely than intuitors to resent being tested on material that has not been explicitly covered in class.
Sensors tend to be patient with details and good at memorizing facts and doing hands-on work; intuitors may be better at grasping new concepts and are often more comfortable than sensors with abstractions and mathematical formulations.
Sensors tend to be more practical and careful thanintuitors; intuitors tend to work faster and to be more innovative than sensors.
Sensors don't like courses that have no apparent connection to the real world; intuitors don't like "plug-and-chug" courses that involve a lot of memorization and routine calculations.


eric

[nari]

Thanks, Eric..by those notes, I am definitely an intuitive, so I wonder where that leaves me with respect to patients' perceptions and outcomes; or anything else that comes my way.

I can see how these statements would fit those who like biomedical information over Feldenkraisesque thinking....


Nari

[EricM]

Nari, everyone is sensing sometimes and intuitive sometimes. You may have a stong, moderate or mild preference for one or the other. To be an effective learner you have to be able to function both ways.
Your original question is the important one, how do we know what sort of learner the patient in front of us is?I doubt we can ever really answer that surely, particularly in a typical clinical encounter. We have to be open to the possibility that our teaching methods may not always be effective and be willing to change tact to suit the learning preference of the patient/learner.

eric

[BB]

A couple of sample questions on the keirsey temperament sorter are:
Are you more
- realistic than speculative
-speculative than realistic.
Is it worse to
-have your "head in the clouds"
-be in a rut
Are you more attracted to
-sensible people
-imaginative people

There are a total of 70 questions on this thing, but 20 of them are devoted to intuitive/sensing. Certain answers correspond to intuitive others to sensing. You add up the answers to see where you fall. I saw that it had gone "commercial," and hightailed out too!

Luckily, I have my copy from class.

Believe it or not, I actually fall more on the Intuitive side based on this test, but I'm closer to the middle.

Eric
Do you have any info on these different tests that attempt to place people into categories, and how it is they are validated?

It seems intuitive to me that an intuitive person would prefer Feldenkrais over therabands, but from your research is that thinking on target?

Can you list some resources where I can find out more?

Thanks!

Cory

[bernard]

Hi Cory,

http://www.advisorteam.com/temperament_sorter/register.asp?partid=1
and there is all the question listed in other languages if you do not want to register.
http://keirsey.com/ktsnonenglish.html