Unit 29 P1 M1 D1 Health and Social Care
P1 – Explain the principal psychological perspecties applied to the
understanding of the deielopment of indiiiduals:
Behaiiourist approach: Behaviourist is the theory that anyone could be able to behave in a certain
way depending on the way they are treated such as, someone is more likely to stop doing something
if they are treated negatvely aferwardss However, their behaviour could be changed if they get a
reward for what they have done, this would give them a motvaton to contnue in a positve way
and possibly beneft otherss he individual’s thinks that it’s a beter idea to think logically in a
positve ways
BsFs Skinner had carried out an experiment to support the idea of the role of the reinforcement and
he used a rat as animal to test ons he experiment involved him putng a rat into a cage which had a
buton in it wwhen pressed food will fall out of it.s He investgated that rat’s behaviour could be
changed and it could be trained to get food when it’s hungry by just pressing the butons fer few
days the rat started to understand that if it pressed a buton the food would fall out so it kept on
doing thats he experiment involved the conditoning the amount of food the animal was getng
depending on when it’s hungry wthe buton.s When he turned of the mechanism the rat ‘forgot’
about the food and it wasn’t eatng as much which led to slow progress of trainings However, when
he turned the mechanism back on, the rat took a shorter amount of tme to ‘understand’ that if the
buton was pressed some of the food is going to be releaseds He suggested that this mechanism was
already in that rat’s role of reinforcement history and that it looks less tme for it to get that it
needed to press a buton to obtain its foods
One of the strengths of the behaviourist approach is that it focuses mainly on behaviour which can
be observed and controlled under laboratory conditonss his is useful as the
Environment is controlled which would produce efectve quanttatve datas he associaton with
alcohol consumpton can be recorded very easilys When carrying out investgatons the experiments
are easily repeatables his is the strength because using scientfc methods gives extra support and
informaton to psychologys nt is seen that the principles of behaviourism have been tested mainly on
animalss his means that fndings like these may not apply totally to human behaviour, which is
much more complexs Doing experiments on animals is a weakness because it ignores innate
biological factors that could afect humans and not all animals have similar biological perspectves as
humanss
his may be considered a weakness because more applicable explanaton may have been avoideds
here is no partcular amount of tme has been given to the fact that the theory doesn’t study the
causes of the behaviour but instead how the behaviour could be altered to a beter use in the
societys
Social learning approach: he social learning theory says that people tend to learn from observing
the behaviour of other individuals and that way deciding on how to behave themselves in those
partcular situatonss
P1 – Explain the principal psychological perspecties applied to the
understanding of the deielopment of indiiiduals:
Behaiiourist approach: Behaviourist is the theory that anyone could be able to behave in a certain
way depending on the way they are treated such as, someone is more likely to stop doing something
if they are treated negatvely aferwardss However, their behaviour could be changed if they get a
reward for what they have done, this would give them a motvaton to contnue in a positve way
and possibly beneft otherss he individual’s thinks that it’s a beter idea to think logically in a
positve ways
BsFs Skinner had carried out an experiment to support the idea of the role of the reinforcement and
he used a rat as animal to test ons he experiment involved him putng a rat into a cage which had a
buton in it wwhen pressed food will fall out of it.s He investgated that rat’s behaviour could be
changed and it could be trained to get food when it’s hungry by just pressing the butons fer few
days the rat started to understand that if it pressed a buton the food would fall out so it kept on
doing thats he experiment involved the conditoning the amount of food the animal was getng
depending on when it’s hungry wthe buton.s When he turned of the mechanism the rat ‘forgot’
about the food and it wasn’t eatng as much which led to slow progress of trainings However, when
he turned the mechanism back on, the rat took a shorter amount of tme to ‘understand’ that if the
buton was pressed some of the food is going to be releaseds He suggested that this mechanism was
already in that rat’s role of reinforcement history and that it looks less tme for it to get that it
needed to press a buton to obtain its foods
One of the strengths of the behaviourist approach is that it focuses mainly on behaviour which can
be observed and controlled under laboratory conditonss his is useful as the
Environment is controlled which would produce efectve quanttatve datas he associaton with
alcohol consumpton can be recorded very easilys When carrying out investgatons the experiments
are easily repeatables his is the strength because using scientfc methods gives extra support and
informaton to psychologys nt is seen that the principles of behaviourism have been tested mainly on
animalss his means that fndings like these may not apply totally to human behaviour, which is
much more complexs Doing experiments on animals is a weakness because it ignores innate
biological factors that could afect humans and not all animals have similar biological perspectves as
humanss
his may be considered a weakness because more applicable explanaton may have been avoideds
here is no partcular amount of tme has been given to the fact that the theory doesn’t study the
causes of the behaviour but instead how the behaviour could be altered to a beter use in the
societys
Social learning approach: he social learning theory says that people tend to learn from observing
the behaviour of other individuals and that way deciding on how to behave themselves in those
partcular situatonss
