BTEC L3 Extended Diploma in Health & Social Care
Unit 8: Psychological Perspectives in Health & Social Care
Assignment 1: Perspectives
Scenario
Psychology is the study of the mind and behaviour. There are many different ways
of understanding the mind and behaviour, these are known as perspectives. In this
assignment you will learn about six different perspectives and assess how well they
explain behaviour.
Task 1
(P1) Explain the principle psychological perspectives.
(M1) Assess different psychological approaches to study.
Complete the table showing the different psychological perspectives –
including their main contributors, the underlying theory and the strengths and
weaknesses of each approach.
On each of the following pages you will need to demonstrate your understanding of
each perspective by providing an explanation of the theories and identifying the
relevant theorist. You can do this by editing the following boxes.
, The SUN
The Social Learning Theory (SLT), was SLT is learning through reinforcement this
formulated by Albert Bandura. Social happened to everybody once or more
Learning Theory explains how people can times in their lifetime. Direct reinforcement
learn new things and develop new is getting rewarded for your behaviour,
behaviours by observing other people. Social Indirect or vicarious reinforcement is where
Learning Theory uses experiments with you see others being rewarded for their
humans and is observational learning process behaviour, so you act the same way to get
among people .The Social Learning Theory rewarded as well. For example your friends
says that people can learn by watching other go to restaurant and get 50 percent
people perform the behaviour. Observational discount to use next time they come so you
learning explains the nature of children's to go to that restaurant to get the discount.
learn behaviours by watching the behaviour
Learning happens through four cognitive
of the people around them this could be a
factors these happen along with watching
role model. A role model is somebody who
and copying us then remember these by
the child may look up to like the child's mum
ARMM.
or dad, or brother or sister then eventually
they start to copy them. Little boys learn
behaviour by using social Learning theory by
watching their favourite football players on
TV playing football they play football a lot
more and try learn skills like their favourite
players because they see them as a role
model. Another example is their dads doing
their hobbies such as riding a bike therefore
the child would copy them and try to ride a
bike because they want to be like their dad
and look up to them and learn to be a man,
Social Learning theory can be used to
recognise what gender we are. However
Social Theory can be used to explain some The Bandura research…
behaviours e.g. aggression however if you’re
a male there are other reasons of behaviours Bandura did the "Bobo Doll" experiment,
because males have more testerone Bandura had an adult who is told to act
therefore their hormones kick in and they aggressively toward a Bobo Doll and
may get aggressive at times out of the blue punch it and had a child watch and
so Social Learning Theory can’t explain all observe the adult acting in front of him.
behaviours Later, Bandura let the child play inside the
same room with the Bobo Doll. He saw that
the child copied the aggressive behaviour
towards the doll that they told the adult to
do but the child took it to another level
and also used weapons to hit it.
Unit 8: Psychological Perspectives in Health & Social Care
Assignment 1: Perspectives
Scenario
Psychology is the study of the mind and behaviour. There are many different ways
of understanding the mind and behaviour, these are known as perspectives. In this
assignment you will learn about six different perspectives and assess how well they
explain behaviour.
Task 1
(P1) Explain the principle psychological perspectives.
(M1) Assess different psychological approaches to study.
Complete the table showing the different psychological perspectives –
including their main contributors, the underlying theory and the strengths and
weaknesses of each approach.
On each of the following pages you will need to demonstrate your understanding of
each perspective by providing an explanation of the theories and identifying the
relevant theorist. You can do this by editing the following boxes.
, The SUN
The Social Learning Theory (SLT), was SLT is learning through reinforcement this
formulated by Albert Bandura. Social happened to everybody once or more
Learning Theory explains how people can times in their lifetime. Direct reinforcement
learn new things and develop new is getting rewarded for your behaviour,
behaviours by observing other people. Social Indirect or vicarious reinforcement is where
Learning Theory uses experiments with you see others being rewarded for their
humans and is observational learning process behaviour, so you act the same way to get
among people .The Social Learning Theory rewarded as well. For example your friends
says that people can learn by watching other go to restaurant and get 50 percent
people perform the behaviour. Observational discount to use next time they come so you
learning explains the nature of children's to go to that restaurant to get the discount.
learn behaviours by watching the behaviour
Learning happens through four cognitive
of the people around them this could be a
factors these happen along with watching
role model. A role model is somebody who
and copying us then remember these by
the child may look up to like the child's mum
ARMM.
or dad, or brother or sister then eventually
they start to copy them. Little boys learn
behaviour by using social Learning theory by
watching their favourite football players on
TV playing football they play football a lot
more and try learn skills like their favourite
players because they see them as a role
model. Another example is their dads doing
their hobbies such as riding a bike therefore
the child would copy them and try to ride a
bike because they want to be like their dad
and look up to them and learn to be a man,
Social Learning theory can be used to
recognise what gender we are. However
Social Theory can be used to explain some The Bandura research…
behaviours e.g. aggression however if you’re
a male there are other reasons of behaviours Bandura did the "Bobo Doll" experiment,
because males have more testerone Bandura had an adult who is told to act
therefore their hormones kick in and they aggressively toward a Bobo Doll and
may get aggressive at times out of the blue punch it and had a child watch and
so Social Learning Theory can’t explain all observe the adult acting in front of him.
behaviours Later, Bandura let the child play inside the
same room with the Bobo Doll. He saw that
the child copied the aggressive behaviour
towards the doll that they told the adult to
do but the child took it to another level
and also used weapons to hit it.
