Reductionism Flashcards

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reductionism

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the belief that human behaviour can be explained by breaking it down into simpler smaller parts

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holism

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behaviours should be seen as a wjole rather than broken down

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parsimony

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that complex phenomena should be explained by simplest underlying principle

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