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Based on the conversations with my colleagues, I believe that the behavioural perspective in psychology provides the most appropriate method of gathering information about Michelle's Bridges red team.
The behavioural perspective seeks to explain human behaviour, by observing actions and examining how they are formed, shaped and changed. In order to do this, we have to observe the person/s in question and their response to certain stimuli. Human behaviour can be seen in every setting, for example, Michelle Bridges can observe her contestants behaviour towards food and certain exercises.

Although, I have to say that the biological perspective also provides an effective method of gathering information about the contestants. The biological perspective of psychology uses principles of biology to study mental processes and behaviour. The biological perspective therefore considers how physical structures, such as the brain and central nervous system. Bodily experiences and brain experiences are taken into account. The biological perspective looks at functional methods, or proof from the body, to hypothesise about the human behaviour. Therefore by using biological methods as it enables us to study the quality of the contestants fitness.

Michelle Bridges (personal trainer of the Red team from the Biggest Loser) is seeking information about her team members.

From the biological perspective, Michelle Bridges is able to identify the quality of their fitness by conducting cardio fitness tests, to test the strenght of their heart rates and how far they are able to be pushed. She is also able to measure their Body Mass Index (BMI) and attain their history, to see past health risks from parents that could be passed down from parent to child. The biological perspective therefore considers how physical structures, such as the brain and central nervous system, affect human behaviour. The biological perspective looks at anatomical evidence, or eveidence from the body, to construct hypotheses about human behaviour.

The green highlighted region of the brain is known as Broca's area, an area in the frontal lobe concerned with speech production, which I have recently discovered. I have worked with a patient called "tan", he is quite peculiar he is able to understand spoken languages although he cannot seem to speak or write it himself. All his motor skills were intact, surprisingly the only articulated sound he mad was the word "tan" from which he had gotten his name. When I autopsied Tan's brain, I found a legion in his frontal cortex in the left hemisphere. I later studied 8 other patients with similar impairments, and lesions in their left frontal hemisphere. From which I concluded "we speak with the left hemisphere". Broca's area is the "language centre of the brain. 
Pierre Paul Broca ~


Biological Perspective - To understand behaviour by understanding the biological processes associated with those behaviours. This includes the brain, nervous system, genetics, and more. 

The majority of my work deals with this psychological perspective as I work with anatomy and the human brain trying to identify which part of the brain controls what function the body does.