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Learning/Study
Preferences
for i(N)tuitive Law Students
Adapted from Gordon Lawrence
People Types and Tiger Stripes 43
(1992).
Cognitive Style:
An intuitive law student favors a cognitive style that involves: |
- being caught up in inspiration,
- moving quickly in seeing
associations and meanings
- reading between the
lines,
- relying on verbal fluency
more than on memory of facts,
- relying on insight more
than careful observation, and
- focusing on general
concepts more than details and practical matters.
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Study Style:
An intuitive law student favors a study style that involves: |
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following inspirations,
- jumping into new material
to pursue an intriguing concept,
- finding their own way
through new material, hopping from concept to concept,
- attending to details
only after the big picture is clear,
- exploring new skills
rather than honing present ones, and
- reading.
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Instruction that fits N's:
Intutive law students do their best work with: |
- learning assignments that put them
on their own initiative, individually or with a group,
- real choices in the
ways they work out their assignments,
- opportunities to find
their own ways to solve problems,
- opportunities to be
inventive and original,
- opportunities for self-instruction,
individually or with a group,
- a system of individual
contracts between teacher and students,
- beginnings which fire
them with the fascination of new possibilities, and
- experiences rich with
complexities which may include stimulating lectures.
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