[The Story of the Mind by James Mark Baldwin]@TWC D-Link bookThe Story of the Mind CHAPTER VIII 44/54
This, for the reason that this type represents brain processes of greater inertia and complexity, with greater liability to obstruction.
They are slower, and proceed over larger brain areas. With these general remarks, then, on the wider aspects of the distinction of types, we may now turn to one of the particular cases which occurs among sensory individuals.
This is all that our space will allow. _The Visual Type._--The so-called "visuals," or "eye-minded" people among us, are numerically the largest class of the sensory population. They resort to visual imagery whenever possible, either because that is the prevailing tendency with them, or because, in the particular function in question in any special act, the visual material comes most readily to mind.
The details of fact regarding the "visuals" are very interesting; but I shall not take space to dwell upon them.
The sphere in which the facts regarding the pupil of this type are important to the teacher is that of language, taken with the group of problems which arise about instruction in language.
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