Holism and Reductionism
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- Created on: 04-04-18 18:50
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- HOLISM AND REDUCTIONISM
- Group of German researchers working in 1920s and 30s declared 'the whole is greater than the sum of its parts'.
- LEVELS OF EXP
- E.g. OCD may be understood in a socio-cultural context as producing behaviour
- Suggests there are different ways of viewing the same phenomena
- BIOLOGICAL REDUCT
- Based on the premise that we are biological organisms made up of physiological structures and processes.
- All behaviour is at some level biological and can be explained through neurochemical, neurophysical, evolutionary and genetic influences.
- Psychology can be placed in a hierarchy within science
- Reductionism however analyses behaviour by breaking it down into its constituent parts
- E.g. OCD may be understood in a socio-cultural context as producing behaviour
- Psychology can be placed in a hierarchy within science
- ENVIRONMENTAL REDUCT
- Behaviourists break complex learning up into simple stimulus response links that are measurable within the lab.
- Behaviourist approach is built on environmental reductionism
- HOLISM AND REDUCTIONISM
- Group of German researchers working in 1920s and 30s declared 'the whole is greater than the sum of its parts'.
- LEVELS OF EXP
- Suggests there are different ways of viewing the same phenomena
- BIOLOGICAL REDUCT
- Based on the premise that we are biological organisms made up of physiological structures and processes.
- All behaviour is at some level biological and can be explained through neurochemical, neurophysical, evolutionary and genetic influences.
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