Real world application

• P- SLT has been applied to many areas of psychology and has provided effective explanations of social behaviours (such as acquisition of gender roles)
• E- SLT considers cultural differences. SLT principles can account for how children learn from other individuals around them, as well as through the media, and this can explain how cultural norms are transmitted through particular societies
• L- this has proved useful in understanding a range of behaviours, such as how children come to understand their gender role