Health And Social Care Level 3 Unit 8 P1

UNIT 8-Psychological Perspectives
This assignment will explain three different psychological perspectives and these are: Behaviourism, psychodynamic and social learning. In this assignment this will include the main theorists and apply how and why they work.
(P1): Explain the principal of psychological perspectives.
Behaviourism
Behaviourism can also be seen as the learning theory. This was introduced by John Watson in the early 1900’s. This was mainly his thoughts and ideas. When it comes to behaviourism there are three assumptions that are attached and are developed within behaviourism. These are; behaviour is learnt and also humans and animals learn the same way, this can be seen that the mind is irrelevant. Behaviourists would conclude
Role models are very important when it comes to social learning because we are more likely to do what they do they do so we memorise what they do well and then we copy. This is because we look up to them and it can be very different from copying someone in the street. This is because we would rather imitate our role models because we may think they are the best in everything that they do. Personally my role model is Nelson Mandela because despite all the challenges that he faced through his life has been strong, passionate, worked hard and he stood to what he believed in no matter how much people wanted him dead. Another reason is because he has achieved a lot throughout his life, but unfortunately he’s passed away now even though this doesn’t change my mind. I want to be able to achieve similar things to him. For this reason I copy his behaviour when dealing with certain problems.
(Source: Rasheed, E, 2010)

Effects of Groups on behaviour
The effects groups of people can have an impact on behaviour because when we are in group we may act differently in order for us to be accepted within the group, but deep down we may feel that we are not ourselves and therefore we ignore our own beliefs. From this we can either take away with us positive or negative behaviours. This was demonstrated by Solomon Asch, he was a social psychologist in the 1950s. He mainly studied majority influence. This is basically when groups of
This approach involves the use of animals. This is one of the strength of this theory as it has the scientific background and knowledge because there has been other scientific study to prove the experiment. Watson used rats in order for his theory while little Albert was used to test phobias and fears, so in this case the theory was useful. On the other hand it could also be a weakness because humans and animals do not behave in the same way as humans are more intelligent and we are also educated about what is around us. The nature in this perspective is missing because we do not inherit phobias or fears and instead we learn them, although the nurture debate in this theory was present because with Little Albert theory at the end he became aware of those phobias and he felt scared and it is the same for the rats as they came out of the box to get the food. The advantage of this behavioural model is that it the reason why a person may experience psychological