PSY 1 - APPROACHES IN PSYCHOLOGY PREPARATION & REVISION The aim of this handbook is to help you prepare and revise for the unit named PSY1 in your A Level course in Psychology. It is not intended to take the place of your class work nor of the full textbook covering the course, but it should help you revise and prepare for the examination. Contents PSY 1 - WHAT YOU NEED TO STUDY 02 UNDERSTANDING HOW THE QUESTIONS ARE STRUCTURED and HOW TO ANSWER THEM 03 THE BEHAVIOURIST
This assignment will explain two psychological perspectives and how they can benefit a child and adolescent mental health service if applied correctly. The first psychological perspective I will explain is ‘The humanistic perspective’ developed by Abraham Maslow (1908-1970). He believed that we are all seeking to become the best that we can possibly be, he called this self-actualiasation. (www.youtube.com/)He stated that there are several stages which need to be met before reaching self-actualiasation
There are three main psychological approaches to abnormal behaviour, the cognitive approach, the behavioural approach and the psychodynamic approach. Firstly, the psychodynamic approach. The psychodynamic approach explains the forces that influence our behaviour. Sigmund Freud proposed a controversial approach and made key assumptions. His first assumption was that mental illnesses are psychological in origin, the psychodynamic approach, unlike the biological approach, explains behaviour as a result
Rowan, K. (n.d.). Psychology explains why guys don't eat vegetables. Retrieved July 23, 2012, from FOX News: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/08/24/psychology-explains-why-guys-dont-eat-vegetables/ This article basically explains why males tend to not eat vegetables and fruits as much as females. In the article it states, “Men don’t believe as strongly as women that fruit and vegetable consumption is an important part of maintaining health.” Advertisements and other means of communication that
Explain different psychological approaches to health practices. There are many different psychological applications to health and social care. According to the behaviourist approach; our behaviour can be changed or improved. The theorist skinner believed that positive reinforcement worked by rewarding the desired behaviour, the behaviour would be improved he did not believe in punishment. Skinner believed that positive reinforcement should be immediate to ensure the effect on the behaviour
M1 – Assess different psychological approaches to study. Behavioural approach – Strengths and Weaknesses The main theory of behaviourism is that we are born a blank slate and all behaviour is learnt from the environment; and it focuses only on external factors that can be objectively observed. Because the experiment’s behaviourists conduct focus only on visible behaviours, behaviourist theories/experiments can always be falsifiable meaning they can always be possibly proven right or wrong. However
TASK 2 (P2) – Explain different psychological approaches to health practice. (P3) – Explain different psychological approaches to social care practice. Health practice is the act of a care professional that performs activities, methods and treatments in order to keep an individual health whether it is to do with diet, exercise, or bad habits such as smoking and excessive drinking. Social care practice is the act of a care professional that concentrates on and supports the social and personal needs
identifying developmental delays and problems based on the scientific theory, for example in a school motor abilities are tested to make sure they have no delays, if they do witness delays this can be treated and the correct therapies given. This psychological approach links to health practice. Cognitive behaviour therapy has an aim to challenge negative thoughts giving an alternative view point of the world for example, giving them a more positive outlook. This is the cognitive aspect of CBT which
In this assignment I shall be assessing the different psychological approaches and these are the psychodynamic, biomedical, behaviourist and cognitive approaches. The first approach I shall be assessing is the biomedical model. This model just focuses on the symptoms of a condition rather than contributing factors which could cause the condition. This model has plenty of evidence to support its claims from research and studies, for example this model suggests that schizophrenia is caused by the
In psychology their six different psychological approaches, which are; behaviourist perspectives, social learning theory, humanistic perspective, cognitive perspective, psychodynamic perspective and biological perspective. Behaviourist perspective is a method that is used to change behaviour in another person; this could be through rewarding them or punishing them. In a health setting a nurse who works in a rehab centre for drug addicts maybe be working with a patient who is an extreme addict,