Understanding Learning: Cognitivism, Behaviorism and Constructivism

In deciding if a social approach is a process of how one learns I must first ask how learning is broken down. In the Yilmaz article, they argued that learning is broken into 3 categories Cognitivism, Behaviorism, and Constructivism. They argued that behaviorist focused more on teacher-centered instruction, while Cognitive and constructivism focus more on the individual. Which is why they started a pushing for learning to be cognitive and constructive because it focuses on how a person acquires and stores knowledge. I agree that to understand how a person learns there must be more attention put into how the individual learns. As a product of American school system, I noticed that our education system will try to lump us all together even when

As stated "theories of learning are based on the premise that learners construct meanings in their minds and integrate new knowledge into their mental constructs." They broke it into two categories social and cognitive. Cognitive approaches learning from the individual. Social approaches learning from social environment and the learners' participation. I agree that cognitive and social constructivism is how a person learns. But for the purpose of this paper, I would argue that a person depends heavily on learning socially before they can take a cognitive approach to learning. I say this because there are very few times that I can remember that I learned something on my own without any interference from others. For example, When I was 7 years old, I taught myself how to skate. I didn't have a teacher physically teach me how to skate, but I watched others skate and how they kept balanced and mimicked their movement. This can be considered a cognitive approach because I didn't have a physical person show me how to skate, but I consider it a social approach because I learned based off of watching others. It's the same way a baby learns how to speak and walk. Unbeknownst to them they are studying and watching their surroundings and reacting to it. They are hearing and watching their mother or guardian talk and move and attempts to mimics it. This is the reason why I think a cognitive approach to learning is dependent on social approach because if we take a baby out of the environment of social interactions and put them in isolation would they still be able to talk and walk? I personally don't think so because I think social constructivism is emphasized in early development stage because of the importance of an infant developing a relationship with