When a person devolpes a dominance toward one side of their brain, they tend to have certain characteristics and areas of intest in common. The left side of the brain is often thought of as the logical, thinking side. Also, people of left brain dominance tend to choose similar occupations.
Above are just some things associated with the left cerebal hemisphere of the brain. People who are left brain dominant are usually good with these things. Below is a list of things that left brained people are good at or they like and things that are done in the left brain.
Prefer Classical Music
Your Left-Brain controls the right side of your body
Prefer things like instructions to be done verbally
Good at math
Like to read
Follow Western Thought*
Very Logical
Dog lovers
Don't enjoy clowning around
Can't be hypnotized
Usually remember things only specifically studied
Need total quiet to read or study
Like to read realistic stories
Like to write non-fiction
Prefer individual counseling
Enjoy copying or tracing pictures and filling in details
Also like to read action stories
Usually rational
Usually do things in a planned orderly way
If you have to answer someone's question, you won't let your peronal feelings get in the way
Good at algebra
Can remember verbal material
Almost never absent minded
Like to tell stories but not act them out
Can think better sitting down
Like to be a music critic
Attentive during long verbal explanations
Prefer well structured assignments over open ended ones
Read for specific details and facts
Skilled at sequencing ideas
Likes to be Organized
*Eastern and Western thought: A doctor in an a country like China would first ask a person how they are doing and what else is going on in their life before they give them medicine. A doctor in North America would just ask them what their symptons were and then give them medicine.
Here are some occupations that are USUALLY fufilled by a left-brained person. (There are always exceptions)
When a person is Right Brain Dominant, they are thought of as the dreamers, the artists, and teh musicians of the world. Just because they are not as good with numbers and remembering facts does not mean that they are "dumber" than a left brain person. They just have their strength in different areas. They do have similar characteristics and they tend to hold similar occupations.
Above are just a few things associated with the right cerebral hemisphere of the brain. People who are right brain dominant are usually good with these things. Here is some more characteristics of a right-brained person.
Prefer rock music
Right brain controls left side of body
Prefer visual instructions with examples
Good at sports
Good at art
Follow Eastern thought*
Cat lovers
Enjoy clowning around
Can be hypnotized
Like to read fantasy and mystery stories
Can listen to music or TV while studying
Like to write fiction
Prefer group
Fun to dream about things that will probably never happen
Enjoy making up own drawings and images
Good at geometry
Like organizing things to show relation
Can memorize music
Occasionally absentminded
Like to act out stories
Enjoy interacting affectively with others
Think better when lying down
Become restless during long verbal explanations
Enjoy creative storytelling
Prefer to learn through free exploration
Good at recalling spatial imagery
Read for main details
Skilled in showing relationships between ideas
Preference for summarizing over outlining
Solve problems intuitively
Very Spontaneous and unpredictable
Dreamer
Philisphical
*Eastern and Western thought: A doctor in an a country like China would first ask a person how they are doing and what else is going on in their life before they give them medicine. A doctor in North America would just ask them what their symptons were and then give them medicine.
Below is a list of occupations held by USUALLY held by a right-brained person. (There are always exceptions.)
These kinds of things are fun but almost always totally wrong. I saw the face almost immediately but I am a very logical, left brained (by the definitions given here) kind of person.
Well, I found the guys head in the coffee beans in about twenty seconds.
I definitely do not tend toward left brainism. Am surely more right brained. I play music and love to write fiction, and, I don't like reading instruction manuals! I had to laugh when I read the tendency to: "Prefer visual instructions with examples". Man, that's me all over.
As a marine engineer aboard ship, I have had fellow engineers who can listen to the Chief as he explains a piping system for instance, and my fellow engineers (some anyway) can listen and just follow along. But with me, I have to have the Chief draw it out, or even better, have him or her take me down and we'd trace out the system together.
Looking at wiring diagrams and schematic drawings drives me nuts also because it seems so "busy" to look at. And when I do try and figure it out, I just kind of fog out. But, if I look at the actual system of pipes or wires, and trace it out with my flashlight or my finger or what ever, I can get it, and have it memorized enough to know what to do in time of need.
One friend of mine is SO left brained that he passed the electrical section of the Marine Engineers exam with a nearly unheard of 97%! While I scraped through with a miserable 72% which is only 2% above passing grade.
And yet, that same guy is just a damned "dud" when it comes to hands on mechanic-ing and fixing broken mechanical problems in emergency situations.
It's really funny how it works. It would be nice to "help out" my left side if I could. Are their left brain exercizes?
"Find the Man's head within 3 seconds and you're a genius ... within 3 seconds, your right brain is more developed than normal people."
You are associating 'genius' with right-brain function.
I wish to point out that 'genius' can happen among either right-brain people, left-brain people, or the third option Right-and-left brain people [like Albert Einstien]
There exist many many methods of guaging intelligence, aptitude and mental ability. Just about every method will guage these things in different terms, which are then non-compatible.
The idea of the military using a 'battery' of exams to measure intelligence is that; some are smart in one-way, while others are really smart in another way. So each different area needs to be measured seperately. The combined score from 6 different areas of testing then forms a number that has value.
I once worked with a man who knew every crewman's license-plate numbers for every vehicle they drove, he knew everyone's birthdates and he had memorized every characterizing number for every atomic element [melting-point, freezing-point, valance electrons, number of protons, etc]. He stepped off the sidewalk and in front of traffic twice while I knew him, hospitalized both times. Yet he was great operating a nuclear-reactor. In some ways he is a genius, in other ways he is dumber than a brick.
Galen, as I said to Sudo, the first part is just for fun. when I checked the other part out on the net it seems that there is a big debate whether this left brain/right brain is all a myth or not.
quote: There exist many many methods of gauging intelligence, aptitude and mental ability. Just about every method will gauge these things in different terms, which are then non-compatible.
Galen --- very true. One of the residents at the group home I work at, is quite *adept* at putting together jig-saw puzzles. He is 37 years of age, yet has the *mentality* of a 12 year old. He received a gift at Christmas, of 10 puzzles all in one box -- each in their own plastic bag.
He systematically opened each and every plastic bag, and poured all the contents together. The totality of pieces involved was around 6,500 in all, and they were all mixed together, in one huge pile.
He found 500 pieces to put the first puzzle together in 4 hours. He found the next 500 pieces, to complete the 2nd puzzle, in even less time. He had all those puzzles put together, in less than a week -- and then started complaining that he needed plastic zip-lock bags, to keep the separate puzzles in! :D-->
I don't know that there is a *test* to evaluate intelligence like this.
According to the Intro to Psych class I took 20 yrs ago, most people are left brain dominant (right handed). There's got to be lots of variation in this though. I read where Paul McCartney was so right brain dominant that it took him extra time to learn to ride a bike; it felt natural to him to pedal backwards, so he required much repitition to not fall off the bike.
I write, throw, bowl, bat, and hold the squeegee (cleaning windows) left handed, but I golf, play guitar, hold both tennis raquet and ping pong paddle, and throw a frisbee right handed. That psych teacher said she thought people who write left handed with their hand in a hook shape, which I do, are usually left brain dominant. I just do what feels comfortable. Several things on both lists above apply to me.
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But what if I'm left brain dominant?
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I was just reading up on the Left Brain/Right Brain, some interesting stuff.......
Have you ever wondered which portion of your brain is the dominant one? The Brain has two distinct sides, each responsible for different things.
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The Left Side
When a person devolpes a dominance toward one side of their brain, they tend to have certain characteristics and areas of intest in common. The left side of the brain is often thought of as the logical, thinking side. Also, people of left brain dominance tend to choose similar occupations.
Above are just some things associated with the left cerebal hemisphere of the brain. People who are left brain dominant are usually good with these things. Below is a list of things that left brained people are good at or they like and things that are done in the left brain.
Prefer Classical Music
Your Left-Brain controls the right side of your body
Prefer things like instructions to be done verbally
Good at math
Like to read
Follow Western Thought*
Very Logical
Dog lovers
Don't enjoy clowning around
Can't be hypnotized
Usually remember things only specifically studied
Need total quiet to read or study
Like to read realistic stories
Like to write non-fiction
Prefer individual counseling
Enjoy copying or tracing pictures and filling in details
Also like to read action stories
Usually rational
Usually do things in a planned orderly way
If you have to answer someone's question, you won't let your peronal feelings get in the way
Good at algebra
Can remember verbal material
Almost never absent minded
Like to tell stories but not act them out
Can think better sitting down
Like to be a music critic
Attentive during long verbal explanations
Prefer well structured assignments over open ended ones
Read for specific details and facts
Skilled at sequencing ideas
Likes to be Organized
*Eastern and Western thought: A doctor in an a country like China would first ask a person how they are doing and what else is going on in their life before they give them medicine. A doctor in North America would just ask them what their symptons were and then give them medicine.
Here are some occupations that are USUALLY fufilled by a left-brained person. (There are always exceptions)
Lab scientist
Banker
Judge
Lawyer
Mathematician
Bacteriologist
Librarian
Skating judge, skiing judge, etc.,
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The Right Side
When a person is Right Brain Dominant, they are thought of as the dreamers, the artists, and teh musicians of the world. Just because they are not as good with numbers and remembering facts does not mean that they are "dumber" than a left brain person. They just have their strength in different areas. They do have similar characteristics and they tend to hold similar occupations.
Above are just a few things associated with the right cerebral hemisphere of the brain. People who are right brain dominant are usually good with these things. Here is some more characteristics of a right-brained person.
Prefer rock music
Right brain controls left side of body
Prefer visual instructions with examples
Good at sports
Good at art
Follow Eastern thought*
Cat lovers
Enjoy clowning around
Can be hypnotized
Like to read fantasy and mystery stories
Can listen to music or TV while studying
Like to write fiction
Prefer group
Fun to dream about things that will probably never happen
Enjoy making up own drawings and images
Good at geometry
Like organizing things to show relation
Can memorize music
Occasionally absentminded
Like to act out stories
Enjoy interacting affectively with others
Think better when lying down
Become restless during long verbal explanations
Enjoy creative storytelling
Prefer to learn through free exploration
Good at recalling spatial imagery
Read for main details
Skilled in showing relationships between ideas
Preference for summarizing over outlining
Solve problems intuitively
Very Spontaneous and unpredictable
Dreamer
Philisphical
*Eastern and Western thought: A doctor in an a country like China would first ask a person how they are doing and what else is going on in their life before they give them medicine. A doctor in North America would just ask them what their symptons were and then give them medicine.
Below is a list of occupations held by USUALLY held by a right-brained person. (There are always exceptions.)
Forest ranger
Wildlife manager
Beautician
Politician
Athlete
Artist
Craftsman
Actor/Actress
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Cowgirl,
These kinds of things are fun but almost always totally wrong. I saw the face almost immediately but I am a very logical, left brained (by the definitions given here) kind of person.
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I dunno how accurate this test is....
it took me, like 2 seconds.....
really
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Sudo, I knew the first part was just in fun, but it got me interested in reading up on a little bit about the right and left side of the brain.
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Well, I found the guys head in the coffee beans in about twenty seconds.
I definitely do not tend toward left brainism. Am surely more right brained. I play music and love to write fiction, and, I don't like reading instruction manuals! I had to laugh when I read the tendency to: "Prefer visual instructions with examples". Man, that's me all over.
As a marine engineer aboard ship, I have had fellow engineers who can listen to the Chief as he explains a piping system for instance, and my fellow engineers (some anyway) can listen and just follow along. But with me, I have to have the Chief draw it out, or even better, have him or her take me down and we'd trace out the system together.
Looking at wiring diagrams and schematic drawings drives me nuts also because it seems so "busy" to look at. And when I do try and figure it out, I just kind of fog out. But, if I look at the actual system of pipes or wires, and trace it out with my flashlight or my finger or what ever, I can get it, and have it memorized enough to know what to do in time of need.
One friend of mine is SO left brained that he passed the electrical section of the Marine Engineers exam with a nearly unheard of 97%! While I scraped through with a miserable 72% which is only 2% above passing grade.
And yet, that same guy is just a damned "dud" when it comes to hands on mechanic-ing and fixing broken mechanical problems in emergency situations.
It's really funny how it works. It would be nice to "help out" my left side if I could. Are their left brain exercizes?
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I see coffee beans.
I guess I need "Coffee Beans for Dummies". I am extremely left brained according to your description.
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I saw the face almost immediately. (what a GLARING inconsistency, amongst all those good looking coffee beans).
:D-->
Prefer rock music --- No way!!! Bluegrass is the Vital Force of Life.
Prefer visual instructions with examples --- Yes.
Good at sports --- No.
Good at art --- No.
Follow Eastern thought* -- Have succumbed (entirely) to Southern thought.
Cat lovers --- I flatten cats.
Enjoy clowning around ---Yes.
Can be hypnotized -- try it, and I'll *clock* you.
:D-->
Like to read fantasy and mystery stories ---yes and no.
Can listen to music or TV while studying --- No way.
Like to write fiction --- Nope.
Prefer group -- "hey baby -- three's a crowd". Mick Jagger
Fun to dream about things that will probably never happen -- Always.
Good at geometry -- Failed it in high school.
:(-->
Like organizing things to show relation -- Yes.
Can memorize music -- Yes -- usually even before it is written down!
:D-->
Occasionally absentminded -- what do ya mean *occasionally*
Think better when lying down --- won't go there.
:P-->
Become restless during long verbal explanations --- absolutely.
Preference for summarizing over outlining -- Yes.
Very Spontaneous and unpredictable ---
Dreamer --- should be evident by now. ;
Philisphical --- is this someone who watches Dr. Phil??
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Cowgirl:
"Find the Man's head within 3 seconds and you're a genius ... within 3 seconds, your right brain is more developed than normal people."
You are associating 'genius' with right-brain function.
I wish to point out that 'genius' can happen among either right-brain people, left-brain people, or the third option Right-and-left brain people [like Albert Einstien]
There exist many many methods of guaging intelligence, aptitude and mental ability. Just about every method will guage these things in different terms, which are then non-compatible.
The idea of the military using a 'battery' of exams to measure intelligence is that; some are smart in one-way, while others are really smart in another way. So each different area needs to be measured seperately. The combined score from 6 different areas of testing then forms a number that has value.
I once worked with a man who knew every crewman's license-plate numbers for every vehicle they drove, he knew everyone's birthdates and he had memorized every characterizing number for every atomic element [melting-point, freezing-point, valance electrons, number of protons, etc]. He stepped off the sidewalk and in front of traffic twice while I knew him, hospitalized both times. Yet he was great operating a nuclear-reactor. In some ways he is a genius, in other ways he is dumber than a brick.
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Galen, as I said to Sudo, the first part is just for fun. when I checked the other part out on the net it seems that there is a big debate whether this left brain/right brain is all a myth or not.
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Galen --- very true. One of the residents at the group home I work at, is quite *adept* at putting together jig-saw puzzles. He is 37 years of age, yet has the *mentality* of a 12 year old. He received a gift at Christmas, of 10 puzzles all in one box -- each in their own plastic bag.
He systematically opened each and every plastic bag, and poured all the contents together.
The totality of pieces involved was around 6,500 in all, and they were all mixed together, in one huge pile.
He found 500 pieces to put the first puzzle together in 4 hours. He found the next 500 pieces, to complete the 2nd puzzle, in even less time. He had all those puzzles put together, in less than a week -- and then started complaining that he needed plastic zip-lock bags, to keep the separate puzzles in!
:D-->
I don't know that there is a *test* to evaluate intelligence like this.
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According to the Intro to Psych class I took 20 yrs ago, most people are left brain dominant (right handed). There's got to be lots of variation in this though. I read where Paul McCartney was so right brain dominant that it took him extra time to learn to ride a bike; it felt natural to him to pedal backwards, so he required much repitition to not fall off the bike.
I write, throw, bowl, bat, and hold the squeegee (cleaning windows) left handed, but I golf, play guitar, hold both tennis raquet and ping pong paddle, and throw a frisbee right handed. That psych teacher said she thought people who write left handed with their hand in a hook shape, which I do, are usually left brain dominant. I just do what feels comfortable. Several things on both lists above apply to me.
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Prefer Classical Music - By classical you mean, clasic rock?
Your Left-Brain controls the right side of your body - ok
Prefer things like instructions to be done verbally - yes
Good at math - yes
Like to read - sometimes
Follow Western Thought* - ok
Very Logical - somewhat would be a better term
Dog lovers - Cat lover here
Don't enjoy clowning around - your kidding right
:P-->
Can't be hypnotized - ok
Usually remember things only specifically studied - ok, and other things as well
Need total quiet to read or study - true
Like to read realistic stories - not usually
Like to write non-fiction - the main thing I write is work related, so that is non-fiction
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Prefer individual counseling -true
Enjoy copying or tracing pictures and filling in details - ok
Also like to read action stories - I would rather watch an action movie
Usually rational - yes
Usually do things in a planned orderly way - I have my own plan and order...
If you have to answer someone's question, you won't let your peronal feelings get in the way - true
Good at algebra - I haven't used algebra in many years...
Can remember verbal material - yes
Almost never absent minded - ummmm
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Like to tell stories but not act them out - true
Can think better sitting down - ok
Like to be a music critic - I know what I like
Attentive during long verbal explanations - just get to the point...
Prefer well structured assignments over open ended ones - true
Read for specific details and facts - true
Skilled at sequencing ideas - I am pretty good
Likes to be Organized - you have never seen my desk have you
And, I am a budget analyst for the Army.
I also play competitive racquetball.
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Like Sudo I found it within the 3 seconds... but I don't think I'm a jeanyus... I knows it!
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gosh i saw it almost right dose that make me possesed!!!lol
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