Psychology of Behaviour: Perspectives, Influences, and Applications in Public Services

Psychology of behaviour
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
P1 Describe a range of psychological perspectives and how they explain human behaviour. . .3
P2 Define the research into group influence, conformity and obedience and how human
behaviour is effected. .................................................................................................................4
P3 Outline the influences and factors which may contribute to criminal activity......................5
P4 Explain how psychological perspectives can be applied by individuals in the public
services. ......................................................................................................................................6
P5 Define how psychological perspectives can be applied to teams within public services. ....7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
Psychology can be define as scientific study of human mind along with its functions,
specifically those effecting behaviour of human being. It is an applied and academic discipline
that involves the scientific study of mental process and behaviour (Kwasnicka and et.al., 2016).
In psychology, behaviour basically consist of an individual's external reactions to environment.
Behaviour can be change according to the negative or positive actions from environment or as
per self-directed intentions. Psychology plays a vital role in understanding behaviours of
individuals along with their actions, reactions, attitudes and emotions. In this study,
psychological perspectives and identification of effect of social influences on behaviour is going
to cover. Furthermore, effect of social influence of behaviour will be discuss. At last,
implementation of psychological perspectives on public services is going to be evidence.
MAIN BODY
P1 Describe a range of psychological perspectives and how they explain human behaviour.
There are several ways of thinking about how individuals behave. In terms of
psychology, such different approaches are known as perspectives. A range of psychological
perspectives have developed in order to help researchers to understand human actions and
thoughts. Range of psychological perspectives that help to understand human behaviour are
available for instance, Psychodynamic perspective. It is basically an approach to psychology
that focus on psychological forces underlying individual feelings, emotions and behaviour
and how they are linked with childhood experiences. This approach put emphasis on dynamic
relations between unconscious and conscious motivation and states that behaviour is the outcome
of conflicts. In context with the given case study, it can be analysed that brutal behaviour of
Robert Thompson and Jon Venables arise from their bas experiences in childhood as both of
them had a lack of parental support. Another approach is known as Behavioural perspective. It
is an approach that majorly focus on learned behaviours. It is relatively different from all other
psychological approaches as instead of considering internal states, it individually focus on
observable behaviours (Manstead, 2018). It is concerned with how behaviours are reinforced and
learned. Principles of this approach are often implemented in mental health settings. Behaviour
of both selected individuals come from their tough backgrounds. Evil and barbarity behaviour of
both the individuals has raised from their surrounding conditions. As negative home
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