Relating the topic to the learner's experiences - Greater volume and quality of experience. People will not learn until ready and motivated to learn - Readiness to learn. Often this requires helping them overcome inhibitions, behaviors, and beliefs about learning. Both approaches are appropriate with children and adults, depending on the situation. It is these sorts of occurrences that often create a perceived need to learn.
Most learners use all three to receive information.
However, one or more of these receiving styles are dominant. The dominant style defines the best way for a person to learn new information by filtering what is to be learned. This style may not always to be the same for some tasks. The learner may prefer one style of learning for one task, and a combination of others for another task. So as coaches, we need to present information using all three styles.