Broderick And Blewitt: Film Analysis

The last theory used for the film is the social learning theory. This theory focuses on “how children acquire personality characteristics and social skills” (Broderick & Blewitt, 2015, p.15). To illustrate, when each individual in the movie discovers the purpose for paying it forward, they then model for someone else on how to pay it forward. Social learning cannot be considered a one person learning experience, but instead involves two or more people. Broderick and Blewitt (2015) also mention that, “This kind of theory, one person (the learner) observes another (the model) performing some behavior, and just from a close observation, learns to do it too” (p.15).