Holism and Reductionism
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- Created on: 03-10-17 18:23
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- Holism and Reductionism
- Holism - perceiving the whole experience rather than individual
- Gestalt
- It was coined by German psychologists and focuses on perception and things only make sense in a whole
- Humanistic
- The individual reacts as an organised whole, not stimulus-response links
- Cognitive
- Each unit is linked to other units, the links develop through experience, it behaves as a whole.
- Gestalt
- Reductionism - breaks complex phenomena into small components
- Levels of explination - how behaviour can be explained
- High - cultural and social explinations
- middle - psychological explinations
- Low - biological explinations
- Biological
- Since all animals are made up of atoms, human behaviour must be explained at this level (Physical)
- Environment
- All behaviour can be explained by stimulus response links (relationships)
- Experimental
- reducing behaviour into isolated variables so research can be done
- Levels of explination - how behaviour can be explained
- Evaluation
- Lower levels of explination
- If lower levels are taken in isolation, the meaning of behaviour may be overlooked
- Biological
- It has led to the development of drug therapies = reduction in institutionalisation
- Environment
- This is about animals so the studies may not be applicable to human behaviour
- Experimental
- This research may not tell us much about everyday life as it is artificial research
- Mind-Body
- Describing relationships between the mind and the body e.g. dreams and REM sleep
- Lower levels of explination
- Holism - perceiving the whole experience rather than individual
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