Question
Do people have a 'learning style'?
Answer
No.
Explanation
In 2012, the study "Neuromyths in Education: Prevalence and Predictors of Misconceptions among Teachers" revealed that, in a survey of primary and secondary school teachers, 93% of teachers in the UK and 96% of teachers in The Netherlands believed in the idea that 'individuals learn better when they receive information in their preferred learning style (e.g., auditory, visual, kinesthetic)'. Learning styles became popular in the 1970s and 1980s and the concept has persisted, yet the lack of evidence for it is not as widely known.
The 2009 study "Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence" concluded that there is no adequate support for applying learning-style assessments in school settings, and evidence from well-designed studies contradicts the learning-styles hypothesis.
A person may like learning information better when it's presented in a certain way and feel that they learn it easier that way or even have a specific aptitude for mental abilities such as spatial visualisation or verbal comprehension, but tailoring instruction to people according to those learning preferences or aptitudes does not result in better learning performance.
Sources
Coffield, F., D. Moseley, E. Hall, and K. Ecclestone, Learning styles and pedagogy in post-16 learning: a systematic and critical review (Learning & Skills Research Centre, 2004)
Constantinidou F., S. Baker, Stimulus modality and verbal learning performance in normal aging (Brain and Language, No. 82, 2002)
Dekker, S., N.C. Lee, P. Howard-Jones, and J. Jolles, Neuromyths in Education: Prevalence and Predictors of Misconcepts among Teachers (Frontiers in Psychology, 2012)
Massa, L.J., R.E. Mayer, Testing the ATI hypothesis: Should multimedia instruction accommodate verbalizer-visualizer cognitive style? (Learning and Individual Differences, No. 16, 2006)
Pashler, H., M. McDaniel, D. Rohrer, and R. Bjork, Learning styles: Concepts and evidence (Psychological Science in the Public Interest, No. 9, 2010)