SLT - strengths

• SLT recognizes the importance of cognitive factors in learning

  • Humans store information about the behaviour of others and use it to make judgements about when it is appropriate to perform certain actions
• SLT principles have been applied to a range of real-world behaviours

  • Modelling, imitation, and reinforcement can account for how children learn from others around them (including the media)
  • This increases the value of the theory
• SLT is a scientific and evidence-based approach

  Bandura demonstrates that children can learn behaviour through observing the behaviour of an adult
• SLT focuses on nurture, looking at how our environment and role models shape our behaviours, and therefore does not assign blame solely to their parents' genes, reducing issues of guilt