V.A.K.O.G. stands for Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic. Olfactory and Gustatory.
Since further demystification may be necessary here: visual refers to seeing (or internally, to perceptions of mental imagery); Auditory to what is heard externally or internally ('mentally'); kinesthetic to feelings (either of a sensory 'bodily' nature like pressure, temperature, etc or of an emotional kind); olfactory to smell and gustatory to taste. In short: 'The Five Senses' and their internal extensions.
It has been observed that the V.A.K.O.G. model has a relationship to educational practice: "...Since even teachers are human beings, they have a favourite sensory channel and, believe that or not, they tend to use it in their teaching habits." (Witch Hazel, 2006).
Relationship Of V.A.K.O.G. To N.L.P.
N.L.P. is an approach to self-development and mental 'reprogramming' developed in the 1970s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder and currently seems to have fallen into some discredit, allegedly for being pseudo-scientific and of dubious reliable effect. HOWEVER, this blog post assignment does not concern its efficacy; I'm required merely to relate it to V.A.K.O.G. in a couple of ways.
N.L.P. refers to the senses as they relate to mental processes as sensory modalities, adopting the V.A.K.O.G. model as a framework around which N.L.P. procedures are built. N.L.P. maintains that an individual's outer activities are underpinned by a 'representational' inner activity and that this activity takes forms which correspond to the senses enumerated in the V.A.K.O.G. model. In N.L.P., the first 3 senses referred to tend to predominate, smell and taste representations being considered generally less frequently relevant to the kind of transformational work which N.L.P. (successfully or unsuccessfully) seeks to accomplish.
As an amusing endnote, one commentator opined: "NLP could be described as the application of the placebo effect. It involves doing whatever you can to make a person believe they’re going to change, and as such relies heavily upon your combined preconceptions. It uses some cunning quirks of language and exploits behavioural patterns to deepen a person’s responsiveness to suggestion."(Key, 2011).
Credits: Hazel's Magic Resource Website (2006). Vakog. Retrieved from http://www.witchhazel.it/vakog.htm Speech And Confidence (2011). Is NLP pseudoscientific baloney or an effective tool for personal development? Retrieved from http://www.harrykey.com/blogs/is-nlp-pseudoscientific-baloney-or-an-effective-tool-for-personal-development/
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