PSYCHOLOGY OF BEHAVIOUR TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 MAIN BODY1 P1. Description of psychological perspectives and effects on human behaviour

PSYCHOLOGY OF BEHAVIOUR

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
P1. Description of psychological perspectives and effects on human behaviour........................1
M1. Assess the psychological perspectives in explaining human behaviour..............................2
P2. Define the research into group influence, conformity and obedience and how human
behaviour is affected....................................................................................................................4
M2. Analyse the consequences of prejudice and discrimination within the public services.......6
D1. Analyse why an understanding and knowledge of psychological perspectives and social
influence is relevant to the public services..................................................................................7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Psychology of behaviour is the study of behaviourism which constructed on the basic
principles of human evolution and is connected with the types of human behaviours. It is clearly
outlined that the individuals are capable in learning the aspects at cumulative rate, however the
human learning assists in developing the behaviourism in order to deal with several behavioural
approaches like biological, cognitive and more (Green, 2016). Herein the individual's behaviour
is the functional unit to function the learning aspects through applying the psychological
behaviour. This assignment is going to discuss about five psychological perspectives and its
overall impact on the human behaviour. In addition, it emphasis on understanding the parameters
like Social loafing, Deindividuation, Conformity and Obedience. There is an analysis on the
MAIN BODY
P1. Description of psychological perspectives and effects on human behaviour
Psychological perspectives are defined as the scientific study of human's behavioural
patterns in order to think, behave and feel with respect to the ongoing activities to overcome the
challenges and tackle the situation from all the angles in terms of biological, psychodynamic,
behavioural, humanistic and cognitive perspectives.
BIOLOGICAL APPROACH: This is the only approach which shed light on the behavioral
changes and exploring thoughts, emotions of individuals with reference to the biological point of
view (Lea, 2015). This is considered as physiological and is the resultant of the combination
effects of genetics with physiological factors. For example, hormones are the secretions in the
human body which regulate the levels of neurotransmitter. It is one of the approaches that set the
targets on the hardware in regard with the mechanisms of body so that the entire metabolism
remains under good immunity levels.
PSYCHO-DYNAMIC APPROACH: This is one of those approaches which indicated towards
the human functionalities depending upon the interaction and segregation of different structures.
For instance, Freud's psychoanalysis is considered as both theory and therapy. This analysis
helped in understanding the individual's unconscious mind that gives insights about the several
layers of human mind and personality as well (Clarke, 2018). Herein, the ulterior purpose is to
release the repressed emotions and experience to make the unconscious frame into a conscious
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mind. Along with this, the differences between unconscious desires and conscious factors are
important in attaining knowledge.
BEHAVIORIST APPROACH: This is refereed as the psychological approach that emphasize on
understanding the dynamics of the associated investigation methods. Moreover, it lays the
foundation of marking the stimulus-response behaviors of people. This assists in learning about
the components to interact with the environment and bring modifications between the
measurable and observable aspects of human behavior (Schwartz, Lilienfeld and Sauvigné,
2016). Such approach focuses on learning the new behavioral patterns of human brain and
unlearning the accepted behavioral parameters. It mainly deals with classical conditioning and
operant conditioning to study about the humans' behavior. Therefore, this is related to the one
dimensional state of mind.
HUMANISM APPROACH: It is that perspective that stresses on the humanistic side in terms of
psychological needs of an individual. This gives an opportunity for understanding the self-
actualization of individual with respect to the treatment (Gross, 2015). This is one of the holistic
approaches that explain about the different levels of emergent properties of human mind. Thus, it
is also called as phenomenonological approach. It is a person centric approach on the person's
individualistic behavioral patterns, attitudes and beliefs system.
COGNITIVE APPROACH: This is one of the modern approaches that reflect upon the behavior
of individuals and their reasoning ability. Additionally, it assumes that cognition is determined
by the several components like remembering, learning, thinking on the basis of language and
external environment (Scott, 2015). There is a need to analyze the scientific study of all the
cognitive psychological processes to give proper attention in bringing radical changes in the
disordered personalities. Such approach would be able to deal with making decisions, resolving
conflicts and problems through though-process and logical reasoning.
M1. Assess the psychological perspectives in explaining human behaviour
Similarities: All the five perspectives have few similarities that give an advantage in
understanding the dynamics and exploring the different aspects of behavioural patterns of
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