Elifsu Ceylan
Unit 8: Psychological Perspecties for ealth and Social Care
P2: Explain diferent psychological approaches
to health practce
In this assignment explain diferent psychological approaches to social care practce and
explanaton of the diferent psychological approaches to health care practce
The behaviourist approach
The main assumptons of the behaiiourist approach are that:
-All our behaiiour consists of responses to stmuli.
-Our behaiiour is learned from our eniironment
-Our behaiiour is determined by reinforcement (positie or negatiev of the things we
do
-Psychology should only focus on obseriable behaiiour rather than the mind (which
cannot be directly obseried or studiedv
-Animals and humans teach I similar ways, therefore, it is appropriate to generalise
animal findings to humans.
The behaiiourist approach states that all our behaiiour is determined and shaped by
the eniironment. If behaiiour has a positie conseeuence, it is likely to be repeated. If it
has a negatie conseeuence, it is unlikely to be repeated.
istorically, the most significant distncton between iersions of behaiiorism is that
between Watson’s original classical behaiiorism, and forms of behaiiorism later
inspired by his work, known collectiely as neobehaiiorism.
Psychology as the behaiiorist iiews it is a purely objectie experimental branch of
natural science. Its theoretcal goal is the predicton and control of behaiior.
Introspecton forms no essental part of its methods, nor is the scientfic ialue of its data
dependent upon the readiness with which they lend themselies to interpretaton in
Unit 8: Psychological Perspecties for ealth and Social Care
P2: Explain diferent psychological approaches
to health practce
In this assignment explain diferent psychological approaches to social care practce and
explanaton of the diferent psychological approaches to health care practce
The behaviourist approach
The main assumptons of the behaiiourist approach are that:
-All our behaiiour consists of responses to stmuli.
-Our behaiiour is learned from our eniironment
-Our behaiiour is determined by reinforcement (positie or negatiev of the things we
do
-Psychology should only focus on obseriable behaiiour rather than the mind (which
cannot be directly obseried or studiedv
-Animals and humans teach I similar ways, therefore, it is appropriate to generalise
animal findings to humans.
The behaiiourist approach states that all our behaiiour is determined and shaped by
the eniironment. If behaiiour has a positie conseeuence, it is likely to be repeated. If it
has a negatie conseeuence, it is unlikely to be repeated.
istorically, the most significant distncton between iersions of behaiiorism is that
between Watson’s original classical behaiiorism, and forms of behaiiorism later
inspired by his work, known collectiely as neobehaiiorism.
Psychology as the behaiiorist iiews it is a purely objectie experimental branch of
natural science. Its theoretcal goal is the predicton and control of behaiior.
Introspecton forms no essental part of its methods, nor is the scientfic ialue of its data
dependent upon the readiness with which they lend themselies to interpretaton in
