Sensory learning is one of the most preferred modes of learning because of the multitude of senses a teacher can compel students to use. Visual learning is one of the most common and feasible types of learning. Auditory learning offers yet another sense to recognize patterns and convey information. Motor-sensory learning has a major advantage in that it incorporates muscle memory into the learning process.
Learning by intuition is somewhat more enigmatic than other learning styles because intuitive learning often involves a moral component in that it is used to help students decipher between competing alternatives by means of a gut feeling. Intuitive learning also extrapolates information from past experiences and incorporates it into the analysis of which alternative to take. Learning by intuition is also more closely associated with creative thinking as opposed to mathematical or logical thinking because it forces students to closely evaluate why something is occurring rather than simply accepting that it does occur.
Analytic learners respond to problems with logic rather than emotion. A proper analysis of an analytic learning style will include an explanation of learning issues and ideas by means of their sequential relation with facts and other ideas. The analytic learning style tends to deal strictly with facts as opposed to opinion, so any explanation of this learning style will have to deal with issues such as skepticism in students.
Understanding the distinction between active learning and passive learning is important for teachers. Active learners prefer to learn with hands-on approaches where they can see and feel why something works or doesn't work. Active learning is closely associated with sensory learning for this reason. Passive learning, however, involves a more traditional approach whereby a teacher lectures and a student must intuit or imagine how things in the world work by means of abstract thinking. A proper analysis of the distinction between these two types of learning styles will be able to show that both have their advantages but one style will be preferable to the other given the collective needs of the students.