reductionist

Question 1

What is reductionism?

Answer 1

Reduces complicated behaviours into simple pieces

Question 2

what Is Hollism?

Answer 2

Idea that human behaviour should be viewed as a whole not as separate parts

Question 3

what is parsimony?

Answer 3

that the simplest version of an event is the preferred option

Question 4

social impact theory
- social

Answer 4

• Reduces all obedience down to a formula (F(sin) which ignores upbringing, personality and DNA
  OTOH- holistic- takes into account situational factors (strength, immediacy, number, multiplicative effect, divisional effect)

Question 5

Milgram
- social

Answer 5

• Reduces obedience to the status of authority figure and ignores all situational factors
  OTOH- holistic- in his variations he looked at the proximity, environment, status of authority figures- rage of situational factors

Question 6

Sherif
- social

Answer 6

• Reduces prejudice to the fact of competition and self esteem
  OTOH- holistic-looks at superordinate goals reduces prejudice and competition increases prejudice

Question 7

Agency theory
- social

Answer 7

• Reduces obedience down to the fact of the status of authority figure
  OTOH- different stages of obeying- autonomous state, moral strain, agents shift, agentic state

Question 8

Multi store model
- cognitive

Answer 8

• Reductionist as suggests all states are unitary and not split into separate stores as suggested by tulving and the WMM
  OTOH- holistic- looks at ltm, STM, sensory registry, encoding, duration, capacity, rehearsal, forgetting, attention

Question 9

Working memory model
- cognitive

Answer 9

-Reductionist- ignores STM and only looks at ltm
OTOH- looks at sub-systems that are within the stm

Question 10

Tulving
- cognitive

Answer 10

• Reduces memory only to the ltm and ignores short term memory
  OTOH- holistic- state cues, time referencing, spatial referencing

Question 11

Baddeley
- cognitive

Answer 11

• Reductionist- ignores individual differences, task is to simple and only allows to measure memory in one way
  OTOH- parsimony- by reducing behaviour in a lab experiment so can establish cause and effect

Question 12

Raine
- biological

Answer 12

• Reductionist- looks at individual brain areas rather than the brain as a whole
  OTOH- also said factors could contribute towards brain differences- holistic