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Psychological perpsectives in Health and Social Care

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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...

Unit 4, Development of life stages by Annette Keselova.

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P1 In this section, I will be talking about each development of life stages and link them to a celebrity Michelle Obama. I will also predict some life stages such as later adulthood and describe what are P.I.E.S. P.I.E.S There are five developments through life stages; physical, intellectual, Emotional and social.  Physical development is when we begin to fit into our own age, this means we either grow from a young age or get old. This includes physical body change and developing our skills such as walking or driving a car. Intellectual development is when our speech is developing including our skills, for example, when if an infant knows their colours and alphabet. Emotional development is our emotions, for example, a female of age 15-16 tend to become more 'emotional' or in other words 'moody' because their hormones produce another hormone called estrogen which causes a female body to mature. Social development is quite similar to emotional, this i...