Reductionsim Flashcards
Sherif
-Ignores biological factors that could cause behaviour by focusing on situation
- ignores individual factors e.g authoritarian personality
- choose white males to eliminate pre-existing prejudice
- lead to RCT. Only focuses on competition, reductionist research
Baddeley
- Research into cognitive often uses simplified tasks
- lab experiment limits Ev’s, reductions used to get cause and effect
- MSM assumes attention and rehearsal is required, ignores unrehearsed experiences
- simplifies LTM and STM
Raine
- Looks at individual brain areas
- Ignores upbringing and life events in causing behaviour
- Ignores other biological factors which can influence e.g hormones
- Lab experiment removes EV’s such as mental illness from control group
Watson & Rayner
- Sees behaviour as being broken down into simple formula.
- Focuses on formulas and controls, crying and crawling from rat and no other reason ?
- Lab setting eliminates EV’s that can impact behaviour
- Learning = human behaviour, may be acceptable to use reductionist approach
Agency theory
- only looks at presence of authority but social impact theory has multiple factors
Social impact theory
Reduces process of obedience down to simple formula
Social identity theory
Only looks at prejudice as 3 state process
Realistic conflict theory
Only factor is competition
MSM
Assumes attention and rehearsal is required for memory which is reductionist as it ignores how people recall experiences
MSM
Assumes attention and rehearsal is required for memory which is reductionist as it ignores how people recall experiences
WMM
Looks at different parts of STM
Reconstructive
Bartlett relies on schemas which come from whole life experience = holistic
Biological
- All human behaviour is fragmented and explained in a simple way
- Neurotransmitter = reductionist as brain is more complex than that
- looks at individual brain areas rather than the complexity of whole brain
Social learning theory
Holistic as it considers a cognition factor as well as environment
Classical conditioning
Sees learning caused by association only
Bandura
Ignores complexity of human behaviour acquisition
Becker
Other factors may have occurred between data sets
