Reductionism vs Holism Flashcards
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Holism
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theory that it only makes sense to study situations/individuals as a whole, rather than their constituent parts
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reductionism
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idea that human behaviour best understood by breaking it down into its separate parts and explaining them at the simplest level
3
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levels of explantion in psychology
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the idea that there are different levels/ways of explaing behaviour/viewing the same phenomena
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biological reductionism
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analyising behaviour by breaing it down into separate parts and explaining them at the simplest physiological level, through neurochemical, physiological, evolutionary and genetic factors
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environmental reductionism
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breaking behaviour down into simple stimulus-response links that have been learned through experience and are measurable in a lab
