Knowing your own hemisphericity, the tendency to rely on one mode of processing than another, can be determined by responding to a series of characteristics.
Materials
Hemisphericity instrument, writing tool.
Procedure
1. In each set, choose the characteristic that is most like you most of the time, and mark it with an X. Choose only one answer for each numbered statement.
2. Check you answers by referring to the 4 MAT Website.
Minds On Strategies
1. How would you distinguish between left and right mode processing?
2. How can you change a classifying activity (which is a left brain) into a right brain activity?
3. What are some ways to incorporate left and right brain processing into science teaching?
Column
A
-----------------------------------OR 1. Uses open-ended,
random experiments 2. Looks at
differences 3. Controls
feelings 4. Is a lumper:
connectedness is important 5. Relies primarily
on images in thinking and
remembering 6. makes objective
judgements 7. Prefers elusive,
uncertain information 8. Problem solves
with hunches, looking for patterns and
configurations ---------------------------------------Column
B Uses
controlled, systematic experiments Looks at
similarities Is free
with feelings Is a
splitter: distinctions important Relies
primarily on language in thinking
and remembering Makes
subjective judgements Prefers
established, certain information Problem
solves by logically and sequentially
looking at the parts of things