Behaviourist and Biological Approach to Typical Behavior

In this essay, we have been asked to evaluate two psychological perspectives’ in relation to “typical behaviour”. The perspectives I have chosen is the behaviourist and biological approach, to be able analyse these approaches, I have decide to use the case study of the death of the two year old ‘James Bulger’ and with this, the relevant therapy’s used by each perspective.

Psychology comprises of two words originally used by the ‘Greeks’, ‘psyche’, defining the mind, soul or spirit and lastly ‘logos’ being study. Both words define together the ‘study of the mind’. Psychology perspectives evaluate the normal and abnormal behaviour and how persons’ deal with different concepts of issues and problems. Psychology theories’ are based on ‘common sense’, but its scientific structure, everything needs to be evaluated and tested, therefore, promoting different psychological theories’.

‘James Bulger’ aged two years, was taken from his mother whilst she was shopping by two ten year olds named ‘Venables and Thompson’. James was diagnosed with horrific injuries and lead to his death. The two ten years had abducted, tortured and murdered James. The investigation indicated a brutal murder suggesting James had been struck by thirty blows to the skull causing deep bruising and the skull had been damaged with an iron bar and a brick. The investigation showed ‘Venables and Thompson’ had stripped James from the waist using ugly impropriety endows had also been inflicted on James. Both these boys had shown a form of a typical behaviour.

Behaviourist perspective is a study promotes experimental measures within understanding of observational behaviour. The understanding to observational behaviour corresponds to a response with the environment being...

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... a plan to enforce positive reinforcement producing positive behaviour but the client would need to be taken out of the environment. The biological perspective would undergo a treatment plan providing the client medication as form to balance behaviour and mood swings to control aggression. The case study of the death James had sent shock waves throughout the UK and globally indicated the importance of the developing mind from infancy to adulthood. This had indicated the variables of treatment in a young age and how social learning had played such as the media contributed to criminal factors placing important legalisations in place.

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