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Personality Temperaments and Learning Styles

The four personality temperaments require consideration in dealing with preferences and challenges in learning. Here is helpful information for intuitive feelers, intuitive thinkers, sensing judgers, and sensing perceiver.

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The intuitive feeler temperament values integrity, relationships and personal and emotional issues.
The intuitive feeler temperament values integrity, relationships and personal and emotional issues.
Preferences
  • Exploring the emotional and human
    aspects of an issue.
  • Using personal expression and imagination.
  • Participating in group discussions and activities.
  • Asking and answering who rather
    than why questions.
  • Finding meaning behind an answer.
  • Receiving highly personalized feedback.
  • Looking at the big picture.
Challenges
  • Disassociating from the group
  • Being hypersensitive to sarcasm and ridicule
  • Needing unconditional positive regard
  • Being nonconfrontational although feeling angry
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The intuitive thinker temperament values competence, rational reasoning, and intellectual complexities.
The intuitive thinker temperament values competence, rational reasoning, and intellectual complexities.
Preferences
  • Making connections in a reasonable and logical way
  • Working alone in an unstructured environment
  • Asking and answering why questions
  • Examining the big picture
  • Listening to lectures
  • Responding to Socratic questioning
  • Gathering and analyzing facts
Challenges
  • Becoming indifferent or hostile to those they feel have no reasonable basis for their actions
  • Exercising independence in order
    to express curiosity
  • Experiencing self-doubt or feelings of personal failure
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The sensing judger temperament values authority, organization, predictability, and usefulness.
The sensing judger temperament values authority, organization, predictability, and usefulness.
Preferences
  • Following routines and agendas.
  • Finding conclusions and the answer.
  • Ordering and sequencing.
  • Asking and answering what and how questions.
  • Listening to lectures and using workbooks.
  • Having structured, sequential lessons.
  • Receiving feedback through a hierarchy of rewards.
Challenges
  • Complaining when the environment is unpredictable.
  • Worrying about school and
    the teacher's expectations.
  • Asking many questions to gain clarity.
  • Becoming exhausted and depressed when common procedures are threatened.
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The sensing perceiver temperament values action, excitement, style, competition, and immediate responses.
The sensing perceiver temperament values action, excitement, style, competition, and immediate responses.
Preferences
  • Discovering how things work.
  • Doing hands-on activities.
  • Being practical learning by doing.
  • Competing and performing.
  • Producing physical products.
  • Experiencing variety and uniqueness.
  • Receiving immediate feedback for actions.
Challenges
  • Creating excitement when bored
  • Moving around and touching others
  • Doing something they consider bold
  • Acting out and taking risks
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