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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.