Relationships Matter

SCORING the VAK INSTRUMENT

Question 1. a. (Kinesthetic) b. (Visual) c. (Auditory) d. (Non-specific)

Question 2. a. ( Non-specific) b. (Auditory) c. (Kinesthetic) d. (Visual)

Question 3 a. (Auditory) b. (Kinesthetic) c. (Visual) d. (Non-specific)

Question 4. a. ((Visual) b. (Auditory) c. Kinesthetic) d. (Non-specific)

Question 5 a. ((Kinesthetic) b. (Visual) c. (Auditory) d (Non-specific)

Question 6. a. (Visual) b. (Non-specific) c. (Auditory) d. (Kinesthetic)

There are no right or wrong answers. All answers are correct. To discover your own personal perceptual preference, count up the number of visual answers, then the number of auditory answers, then the number of Kinesthetic answers. Your favorite sense will show up in the numbers.

The sense you use the most is reflected in your language. If you used visual words the most, then chances are you prefer pictures to “make sense “ of your world. If you prefer sound words, you are an Auditory and spend a lot of your awareness on sounds, words, and music. If you have a dominance of kinesthetic, you are constantly aware of your emotions, and the actions of your body as you move through space. If most of your sensory words were abstract or non-specific, then you are a cerebral, naming data without awareness of a lot of body sensations. You are slightly dis-connected from your own sensory data. These four perceptual preferences make a big difference in your memories, your decisions, and your preferences. The data you collect from the world around you creates your moment to moment reality.

If you and your partner are mis-matched in these perceptual preferences, you are living in vastly different worlds. For example if you are a kinesthetic and s/he is an auditory then “truth” is hard to find. Do not believe me. Check this out for yourself.

Most of us have one sense that we use the most to collect data from the world around us, store this in our brains, and use this data to decide how to act. We use a second sense now and then, but the third major sense is usually outside our awareness, so when we meet someone whose favorite sense is our least used, we have difficulty relating and communicating. We are using vastly different information in our decision making.

MY SCORE Visual Auditory Kinesthetic

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More information on this subject can be found in the book, “Influencing with Integrity”. There is also a video series on this topic and other strategies for better relationships.