VARK Model (Fleming)
Sensory-channel preference framework: Visual, Auditory, Reading/writing, Kinesthetic.
"Note: research suggests preference ≠ performance. Use VARK to vary delivery, not to label brains."
What is VARK Model (Fleming)? Sensory-channel preference framework: Visual, Auditory, Reading/writing, Kinesthetic. Training content design; accessibility.
Instructional design defaulting to multi-modal delivery.
Training content design; accessibility.
Design for all four channels; don't pigeonhole learners into one.
Use the model. Pick the move.
Sensory-channel preference framework: Visual, Auditory, Reading/writing, Kinesthetic. You've just seen this: Instructional design defaulting to multi-modal delivery. Which lever does the model recommend?
Pick a lever. There are no neutral ones — every incentive funds a behavior somewhere.
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Every concept in the Atlas uses the same structure — so VARK Model (Fleming) can be compared, recombined, and cited like an element on a periodic table.
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- Relationships
- Where in our org would VARK Model (Fleming) most often show up unnoticed?
- Which metric, ritual, or contract clause quietly rewards VARK Model (Fleming)?
- If we removed every payoff for VARK Model (Fleming), what behavior would replace it?
- Who benefits when VARK Model (Fleming) persists — and who pays the cost?
- People defend the status quo using the language of vark model (fleming).
- Decisions cluster around the easiest narrative rather than the strongest evidence.
- New data changes the slide deck but not the decision.
- Anyone naming the pattern is treated as the problem.
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See VARK Model (Fleming) through 4 lenses
Each layer of the Incentives OS reframes this concept with its own thinkers, vocabulary, and diagnostic question.
- Layer 2Behavioral Economics
Which biases are most likely operating right now?
- Layer 9Persuasion & Behavior Design
What is making this behavior easier than the alternative?
- Layer 15AI & Alignment
What proxy reward is the AI optimizing — and what is it ignoring?
- Layer 21Mental Models & Mastery
Which model — or stack of models — are we missing here?
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Which best describes VARK Model (Fleming)?
Worked example, counter-example & concept map
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When you encounter VARK Model (Fleming), your prefrontal cortex has to do extra work to override the automatic response — and that override budget is finite.
Executive control, planning, impulse override, working memory, System 2. First thing to go offline under stress, fatigue, or low blood sugar. Why your 4pm decisions are worse than your 9am ones.
See Prefrontal in the Brain Atlas →Picked for you, from the Atlas
Ranked by shared learning paths, overlapping chips, and what you've saved.
Your capacity to learn, unlearn, and relearn faster than the environment changes.
Malcolm Knowles's principles of adult learning: self-direction, experience as resource, readiness, problem-centered orientation, intrinsic motivation.
Amishi Jha's research: attention is a finite, depletable, but trainable cognitive resource — short daily mindfulness measurably improves it.
Approach a situation as if you knew nothing.
Unusual or bizarre material is more memorable than common material.
Hierarchy of cognitive learning: Remember → Understand → Apply → Analyze → Evaluate → Create. Benjamin Bloom, 1956 (revised 2001).
Send the card, not just the link
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We return to a baseline of well-being after gains or losses.
Four-stage cycle: Concrete Experience → Reflective Observation → Abstract Conceptualization → Active Experimentation.
Bad lands harder than good.
Today's discomfort outweighs tomorrow's reward.
Less available = perceived as more valuable.
Generalizing from winners while ignoring identical losers.
Limited capacity holding-tank for current information.
Assuming something is true because it is probable or possible.
Diffused responsibility means nothing happens.
Remembering past attitudes and behavior as more consistent with present ones.
Low-end or new-market entrants overtake established incumbents.
Concluding that because an argument contained a fallacy, its conclusion must be false.