[QCM2841 (STRINGS) THE DOMINANCE FACTOR]

Dominance Factor Dr. Carla Hannaford

Synopsis
Explores an area that has long intrigued scientists and educators: the linkages between the
side of the body we favor for seeing, hearing, touching, and moving and the way we think,
learn, play, and relate to others. Your Dominance Profile is actually a key factor in shaping
the way you think and act. Carla Hannaford shows why, and reveals how knowing your
Profile will help you, and your children, to l earn in the way that suits you best, and perform
at your highest level. The Dominance Factor clearly explains methods for discovering your
Profile that are so simple, non-invasive and easy to learn that even a child can do them. This
is a book that parents, teachers, and all of us who need to understand what makes
ourselves and others tick, will use and enjoy.

Like learning styles, and theories of multiple intelligences, knowing your childs
dominant eye, ear, brain, hand, and foot can improve his/her learning. These
patterns of lateral dominance greatly influence the way that information is internally
processed by the individual and consequently the kinds of learning activities one
prefers. If we know a students dominance profile we can accommodate educational
practices, identify communication challenges when stress, and create strategies for
success.
The goal of dominance profiles is to see unique strengths and difficulties more
objectively, more flexibly, and with deeper understanding. Dominance Profiles
become doorways to new and constructive insights into individuals rather than
labels which confine and limit their view of themselves and their potential.

Logic
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Processes from pieces to whole

parts of language
syntax
semantics
letters
printing
controls feelings
planned
sequential thinking
time conscious

spelling
numbers
techniques
analysis
logic
looks for differences
language oriented
structured
future oriented
structure oriented

Gestalt
Process from whole to pieces
Emotion
Meaning
estimation, flow
intuition

language comprehension
rhythm, dialect
movement

looks for similarities

image

application
free with feelings, prefers

drawing
manipulation, spontaneous

fluid,
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simultaneous thinking
now oriented

less time sense

people oriented

UNDER STRESS
Logic
Tries harder, lots of effort, without results, without comprehension, without joy, without
understanding, may appear mechanical, tense, insensitive

LOGIC HEMISPHERE

(usually on the left side)

parts and processes of

deals with detail, the

language and linear analysis.

UNDER STRESS
Gestalt

Loses the ability to reason well, acts without thinking, feels overwhelmed, has trouble
expressing, cannot remember details, may appear emotional or spaced-out
deals with whole-processing or global images,

GESTALT HEMISPHERE

(usually on the right side)

rhythm, emotion and intuition

The CORPUS CALLOSUM between the hemispheres acts as a superhighway

allowing quick access to both linear detail in the logic hemisphere and the overall
image in the gestalt hemisphere. When there is good communication between the
two halves, the result is integrated thought. The more that both hemispheres are
activated by use, the more connections form across the corpus callosum. The more
connections, the faster the processing between both hemispheres and the more
intelligently we are able to function.

It is necessary to use both hemispheres

of the brain to be maximally proficient
at anything.

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QCGU | Madeline Hagon 2014