Reductionism evaluation
- Created by: floramorris
- Created on: 04-04-19 09:24
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- Reductionism Evaluation
- Scientific credibility
- Often forms on the basis of scientific research.
- target behaviours are reduced to consituent parts.
- this makes it possible to conduct experiments or record observations
- behavioural categories.
- creates operationalised variables.
- gives psychology greater credibility
- lack of validity
- explains at the level of genes and neurotransmitters transmitters.
- it oversimplifies the complex phenomena and so loses validity.
- they fail to analyse the social context of behaviour.
- therefore reductionist explanations can only ever form part of an explanation.
- interactionalistapproach
- strength of both holism and reductionism
- considers how different levels of explanation combine and interact.
- diathesis stress model
- Scientific credibility
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