Psychological perpsectives in Health and Social Care
P1. Explain the principal psychological perspectives. (Ivan Pavlov, B.F Skinner) There are various different types of perspectives in psychology. These perspectives present the different ways human behaviour functions, in addition, I will list and explain the six perspectives of psychology. Behaviorist perspective. The behaviourist perspective is based on the idea that people and animals learn from their environment and as a result, from what we learn from our environment makes us who we are. Behaviorism is concerned with how environmental factors (the stimuli) affects observable behaviour (the response). In addition, there are two processes in which people learn from their environment; classical conditioning and operant conditioning. Classical conditioning was studied by a Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov, with his experiment he managed to condition dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell through repeated associated with the sound of a bell and food. In other words...