Table 4. Learning preferences associated with dimensions of MBTI type

Extraversion

Introversion

• talking, discussion

• psychomotor activity

• working with a group

• reading/verbal reasoning

• time for internal processing

• working individually

Sensing

Intuition

• tasks that call for carefulness, thoroughness and soundness of understanding

• going step-by-step in guided activity

• tasks that call for observing specifics

• tasks that call for memory facts

• demonstrations and labs

• practical interests

• tasks that call for quickness of insight and in seeing relationships

• finding own way in new material

• tasks that call for grasping general concepts

• tasks that call for imagination

• reading

• intellectual interests (independent of intelligence)

Thinking

Feeling

• logical organization of teacher

• objective material to study

• personal rapport with teacher

• learning through personal relationships

Judging

Perceiving

• work in steady, orderly way

• formalized instruction

• prescribed tasks

• drive toward closure, completion

• work in flexible way, following impulses

• informal problem solving

• discovery tasks

• managing emerging problems