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One strength of social learning theory is that it is ingrained within us from an early age and is our natural way of learning. We learn almost everything as a child by observing those around us and attempting to recreate it whether that’s language or eating and drinking.

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Its flexibility to explain differences in child behaviours. The belief that children learn in social context reinforces the idea that if there is a change in environment there can be change in the child.

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Another strength of Social learning theory is that it provides us with flexible explanations for differences between one child’s behaviour and another.

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A strength of social learning theory is the wide scale in explaining the many differences in one’s behaviour or learning, usually by primary sources so language and fine motor skills.

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One Strength of the Social Learning Theory is that it is picked up at a young age. It is our way of learning. We pick up traits and other necessary behaviours in order to do basic human activities e.g., eating, drinking etc.

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One strength is that Bowlby achieved was that his studies helped to shine a light and bring forward the idea of talking about people's mental health at a very young age, something that wasn't spoken on much time.

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A second strength of social learning theory is that it provides understanding of how people learn from others and how this is done through observation.

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Another strength of the Social Learning Theory is that it can tell us why everyone behaves different from childhood, this is due to the different environments' children grow up in, and the different things they see.

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It has the tendency to be a guide that can predict behaviour rather than an accurate statement of how everyone acts as each individual’s behaviour differs.

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Social learning is naturally part of the human mind from a very early age in life. Learning from people around us and our environments encourages our way of acting.

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It helps provide context as to why some children act differently from others.

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Social learning theory holds no account as to how we develop a variety of behaviour based on thoughts and feelings.

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One weakness of the Social Learning Theory is that everyone's behaviour is completely different, and the theory only predicts behaviour instead of nailing an accurate statement

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Another weakness of the Social Learning Theory is the fact that not everyone's behaviour comes from childhood, they can develop different behaviours over time instead of learning as a child.

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A weakness in social learning is that everyone learns to be different as they grow up, their behavior evolves and it's not all from childhood either.

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One weakness of social learning theory is that it takes away too much accountability from the  child and its guardians by focusing more on environments.

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It focuses mainly on a childs environment as they grow up in their early years, behaviors change overtime and the theory does not account for it.

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A second strength is that it helps people understand why attentio  is so important in a child's first years as it can effect them for the rest of their lives.

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One strength of the social learning theory its flexibility in explaining the differences between a child's learning or behaviour. It reinforces the idea that when there is a change in a child's environment, the child's behaviours may change aswell.

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Neglects child accountability. The theory places more weight onto influences in society rather than how the child handles and processes new information.

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One strength of social learning theory is that we learn from our caregivers at an early age and we copy many interactinisms and how to act

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Another weakness of Social learning theory is that it’s too simplistic by nature and fails to take into account the changes one will undergo throughout their life span.

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Bowlby’s 44 thieves was a study based on nurture and he explored the long-term effects of maternal deprivation on 44 juvenile thieves referred to him due to cases of stealing. All children had their IQ tested by a psychologist who then assessed the child’s emotional attitudes in light of the tests. Results explained more than half of the juvenile thieves had been separated from their maternal figures for longer than six months during their first five years of life. Bowling said a child needs to attach to one main attachment and that if the attachment to such figure is disrupted or broken during a critical two year period then the child would suffer from irreversible long term consequences as a result of this maternal deprivation.

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Doesn’t take into account what one person views as punishment and what another views as reward

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Another strength of the social learning theory is that it has many modes of learning. Bandura noted that individuals can learn through both first-hand experience and observation.

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Bowlby tested 44 thieves, observing their behaviors in interviews and discovered that most of them were affectionless psychopaths that suffered from maternal deprivation through seperation of their main attachment during their early life.

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Bowlby's 44 thieves theory was a test on 44 young thieves, looking and analysing their behaviour and changes in mood by interviewing them, he discovered that a majority of them had no emotion and were genuine psychopaths, the then seen that these behaviours came from childhood, mainly due to separation from their main carer, or lack of parental care.

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SLT strength is it shows the difference in a childs learning and behaviour. also the idea that we copy from our carers and cpy how they act.

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One weakness with the theory is that it only takes into account of the environment and how that influences theme, it fails to take into consideration that people can change and overcome challenges in their upbringing.

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A strength is that it can explain differences in a child's behavior, in a flexible way. It shows that children learn in a social context. This then shows when there is a change in the environment, the behavior will change.

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a weakness of SLT is not all children are the same when they grow up and there behaviour changes.

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A second weakness of social learning theory is that it does not look into the nature aspect of the argument

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Unlike operant conditioning theory, it can explain aggressive behaviour in the absence of direct reinforcement. Although Bandura et al.’s (1963) participants behaved more aggressively after observing an aggressive model, at no point were the children directly rewarded for any action, either aggressive or non-aggressive. Consequently, the concept of vicarious learning is necessary to explain these findings.

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Ethical issues make it difficult to test SLT experimentally. This is because exposing children to aggressive behaviour with the knowledge that they may reproduce it in their own behaviour raises ethical issues concerning the need to protect participants from psychological and physical harm. As a result, experimental studies such as the Bobo doll studies would no longer be allowed to take place. This means that it is difficult to test experimental hypotheses about the social learning of aggressive behaviour in children and consequently difficult to establish the scientific credibility of the theory by this means.

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The theory does not tell us why a child would be motivated to perform the same behaviours in the absence of the model. In a later study, Bandura and Walters’ (1963) found that those in the no-reward no-punishment control group were somewhere in between high/low levels of aggression. Bandura called this type of learning vicarious learning – the children were learning about the likely consequences of actions and then adjusting their subsequent behaviour accordingly.

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Research support for the prediction of SLT comes from a series of studies carried out by Bandura et al (1961). This involved children observing aggressive and non-aggressive adult models and then being tested for imitative learning in the absence of the model. Children in the aggression condition reproduced a good deal of physically and verbally aggressive behaviour while none of the children in the non-aggressive group made such remarks.

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Another strength is that there is many functions of learning. While the theory focuses on gaining behaviors through environmental influences, people may learn through observation or direct experience.

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Bowlbys study of 44 thieves supports the social learning theory

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it does not consider what one would consider as a punishment and what someone would consider a reward.

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This study was conducted using three groups of children.
Group One - was shown a video which demonstrated an adult kicking and punching a BoBo doll.
Group Two - were shown the same video, but a second adult appeared near the end and praised the model's aggressive behaviour.
Group Three - were shown the same video but this time a second adult scolded the model and warned against further aggression.

After the video, the children played in a room which contained a variety of toys, including the BoBo doll and a toy mallet.
All three groups were asked to reproduce as much of the model's behaviour as they could, and they were directly rewarded for this.
The children were observed through a two-way mirror and the number of aggressive acts for each child were recorded.

Results
Group C children demonstrated significantly fewer aggressive acts than A or B.
There was no real difference between the numbers of aggressive acts in groups A or B.

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A weakness is that it lacks accountability from the child, from their own actions. It blames society too much for how an individual acts and behaves.