Strength of SLT?

-Acknowledges mediational processes in learning -Classical or operant conditioning doesn't acknowledge this process, they don't show the gap between stimulus and response and therefore doesn't provide an adequate explanation -Humans and animals store the beahviour that they observer in their brain for them to be able to reproduce it later when they have the right motivations. By recongnising the important of mediational, which is a cogntivie approach, allowing for a overall more holisitc approach -Despite this, SLT has been crisiticsed for making little references to genetics and biological factors, making it too reductionist