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Effective Communication

Here is the quiz to determine your processing triad. After you take the quiz, return to the Effective Communication I cd to learn more information about your particular learning styles triad. If you want more information about ordering The Efficient Brain Series Presents: "Finding Your Triad and Learning Style" or any of my other products, please visit www.efficientbrain.org.

Finding Your Learning Styles Triad

 

Directions: Read each question and answer with your initial response. This is not about what you have learned to do, but what you would naturally do. At the end, tally each answer under the correct heading.

 

  1. Describe how you speak.
    1. You easily find the right words without hesitation and youthink well “on your feet.”                        AKV, AVK
    2. You feel shy about speaking in front of groups or peopleyou do not know well.                                  VKA, KVA
    3. You create visual pictures with your words, give visual examples.                                                             VAK, KAV
    4. You talk about what is happening, how you feel or the actions in a situation.                                         KAV
    5. You always use hand motions before words because you use hands or movement to find words  VKA, KAV
    6. You have trouble making a simple point, talk in circles and want to ask a lot of questions.              VKA, KVA

 

  1. What words do you use?
    1. You phrases like “Listen to this.” Hear me out.”Let me tell you.”                                      AKV, AVK
    2. You use phrases like “Look at it this way.” “Do you seewhat I mean?”                            VAK, VKA
    3. You use phrases like “Do you understand me?” Do you know what I am saying?”     KVA, KAV

 

  1. How do you make eye contact?
    1. You make steady eye contact and that feels comfortable.                                                                                   VAK, VKA
    2. You are uncomfortable with eye contact for more than a few seconds and looks away frequently. AKV, KAV
    3. You can maintain steady eye contact, but becomeuncomfortable if sustained for too long                AVK, KVA
    4. Your eyes glaze over if you listen for too long.                                                                                                          VKA, KVA

 

  1. How do you respond to touch?
    1. You are hesitant about physical contact.                                                              AVK, VAK
    2. You are comfortable with physical contact.                                                        KVA, KAV
    3. You are more comfortable with physical contact after initial contact.   AKV, VKA

 

  1. Which of these is the easiest to remember?
    1. What’s been said, jokes, lyrics, names of people, titles;memorize by saying something repeatedly                            AKV, AVK
    2. What’s been seen or read, people’s faces, how somethinglooks; memorize by writing something repeatedly         VAK, VKA
    3. What’s been done or experienced, the feel or smell of something; memorize by doing something repeatedly        KVA, KAV

  1. What is your handwriting like?
    1. You writing is neat and easy to read.                                                  VAK, VKA
    2. Your writing is difficult to read.                                                           AVK, KVA
    3. Your writing is often messy and looks “painful” to write.        AKV, KAV

 

  1. What are your physical skills like?
    1. You are constantly moving.                                                                                             KVA, KAV
    2. You have no trouble sitting still for long amounts of time.                                AVK, VAK
    3. You fell like learning a new skill takes time and feels awkward.                      AVK, VAK
    4. You easily learn new physical skills and feel very comfortable in your body.                                                                                                                                          KVA, KAV

 

  1. How do you express your feelings?
    1. You are very private about your feelings.                                                                   VAK
    2. Your feelings seem right beneath the surface                                                            AKV, VKA
    3. You can easily express your feelings.                                                                            AKV, KAV
    4. You can easliy express the reasons for your feelings.                                            AVK
    5. You find it very difficult to express how you feel verbally.                                 KVA

 

  1. What makes you stop paying attention?
    1. You drift off with too much to look at or questions abou what you see.                          AKV, KAV
    2. You space out with too much talking.                                                                                             VKA, KVA
    3. You lose focus with too many questions about what to do or when being touched.  AVK, VAK

 

  1. When frustrated which do you do?
    1. You can’t sit still and need to move around.         AKV, KAV
    2. You want to get physically aggressive                     KAV              
    3. You tend to show off.                                                      VAK
    4. You talk back or you interrupt                                  AKV, AVK
    5. You get sullen or withdraw.                                         VKA, KVA
    6. You tend to whine or complain.                                 VKA

 

  1. Which is easiest to remember after seeing a movie, TV show or reading?
    1. What the people and the scenes looked like                        VAK, VKA
    2. What was said or how the music sounded                             AKV, AVK
    3. What happened or how the characters felt                           KVA, KAV

 

 

  1. What is easiest to remember about people you just met?
    1. You remember what you did.                                                          KVA, KAV
    2. You remember their faces.                                                               VAK, VKA
    3. You remember thier names and what you talked about.    AKV, AVK

 

 

  1. Which choice bothers you the most?
    1. Mean, hurtful words                                                               VKA, KVA
    2. Poking, invasive touch                                                          AVK, VAK
    3. Nasty looks                                                                                AKV, KAV

 

 

  1. Which explains how you put something together?
    1. I read the directions and then do it. Telling me confuses me.                                                           VKA
    2. I read the directions, ask questions, then talk tomyself as I do it.                                                  VAK
    3. I work with the pieces, then ask questions if I need to I never read directions.                        KAV
    4. I work with the pieces, look at the diagram, then ask questions.                                                     KVA
    5. I have someone tell me, then show me how, then I try it.                                                                   AVK
    6. I have someone tell me how to do it, then I try it. I only read directions as a last resort.    AKV

 

  1. What is most important when you decide which clothes to wear?
    1. How they feel, how comfortable they are, the texture                                   KVA, KAV
    2. The colors, how they look on me, how they go together                               VAK, VKA
    3. An idea of what’s me, the brand name, what the clothes say about me   AKV, AVK

 

 

 

    AKV              AVK                           KAV                           KVA                           VKA                           VAK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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