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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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