how does the social learning theory incorporate cognitivism and constructivism into their frameworks?

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wants details of how cognitivism and constructivism work with the social learning theory to help individuals learn better and to better their skills when it comes to learning

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Learning can be analyzed. It has three levels: (1) precept/concept – general rules, principles or guidelines that help us make decisions, (2) examples – good and bad, and we observe the outcome, and (3) experience – a very effective teacher, though very unforgiving.

 

The social learning theory claims that people learn through observing, imitating, and modeling. It shows that people not only learn by being rewarded or punished (behaviorism), but they can also learn from watching somebody else being rewarded or punished (observational learning). For example, the media (movies, TV, music, news, social media, etc.) shape this generation. This is why they put people in the stocks in the town square, had public hangings, and why our newspapers access police records and why we have online lists of sexual predators.

 

Behaviorists acknowledged the existence of thinking, but identified it as a behavior. Cognitivists argued that the way people think impacts their behavior and therefore cannot be a behavior in and of itself. This explains why people so often act on false information and why terrorists can so easily disrupt society.

 

Constructivism is a theory of knowledge] that argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from an interaction between their experiences and their ideas. All learning is associative – we compare/contrast new information with the information we already possess. Thus, “we move from the known to the unknown.”

 

The Supreme Court of today will rule much differently that a Supreme Court of yesteryear. No, the Constitution has not changed, but rights are “Constitutional” now that were not considered when the document was written. Would they have thought about millions of dollars being donated for political candidates? Or whether companies can opt out of portions of a healthcare law on religious grounds? Or whether mass collection of cell phone and internet information of American Citizens should be permitted?

 

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