Holism Vs Reductionism Flashcards
1
Q
Holism
A
The whole picture
Can not predict the behaviour of a whole system from individual parts
2
Q
Gestalt
A
Perception, what we see doesn’t make sense as individual components only as a bigger picture
3
Q
Humanistic
A
We react as a whole rather than a set of links
4
Q
Reductionism
Levels of explanation
A
explanations begin at the highest level and work down to components
5
Q
Biological reductionism
A
Behaviour such as attachment is explained in terms of a stimulus causing a response
