The influence of Personality Traits on the Processing of Visual and Verbal Information

Visual and verbal thinkers; a visual thinker is someone who uses pictures to think, and verbal thinkers think in words. If you were to look up the definition of visual thinking, the first thing that would pop up as an answer is; refers to a group of generative skills that, when practiced with rigorous discipline, results in the production of novel and original ideas. By seeking to discover visual forms that fit his/her underlying human experience, the student of visual thinking comes to know the world. Those last two sentences were pretty confusing, so in order to help understand it more I kept looking for something easier; to receive more of a view on visual thinking . It was already clear that a visual thinker thinks in pictures, but needing something more descriptive, I continued to find articles and the quotes within them. What I found is interpreted thought out this essay.

Visual and verbal thinkers use different ways of remembering things; they are different in their own mind. Visual and verbal thinkers are different in several ways; the way they process information, the way that they can respond differently to different types of action and the way they think can also vary among the hemisphere of the brain you work toward. “While the basic steps that are used to process information are consistent, the skills, goals, prior knowledge, and strategies used in information processing can vary greatly among individuals. (Sojka and Giese)” What better helps me understand these quotes from the article “The influence of Personality Traits on the Processing of Visual and Verbal Information,” is how it is further explained throughout the rest of the article how the people wrote it, tested the different visual and verbal thinker...

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...as a visual thinker, you think in pictures and use the pictures to help you to understand what is going on in the world around you, when you think as a verbal thinker, you remember things in the words that and you describe and define things to the way that will help you. Verbal and visual thinking is both different and very same things that can depend on the way you learn, the way that you are taught and what hemisphere of the brain you work toward, yet if forced to think the way that you don’t then your brain gets confused.

Works Cited

Kirby, John. “Verbal and Visual Learning Styles.” pp. 1. Online

Sojka, Jane. Giese Joan. “The Influence of Personality Traits on the Processing of Visual and

Verbal Information.” A Journal of Research in Marketing. Print

Sword, Leasley. “I Think in Pictures You Think in Words: The Gifted Visual Spatial Learner”

pp.7. Print