Nurture which refers to all environmental influences after conception, i.e. experience.
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Define Reductionism
Reductionism is the belief that human behavior can be explained by breaking it down into smaller component parts.
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Define Holism
Holism refers to any approach that emphasizes the whole rather than their constituent parts. In other words ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’.
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Define Free-will
Free will assumes that we are free to choose our behavior, in other words we are self determined e.g.. people can make a free choice as to whether to commit a crime or not (unless they are a child or they are insane).
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Define Determinism
The determinist approach proposes that all behavior is determined and thus predictable.
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Nurture which refers to all environmental influences after conception, i.e. experience.
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Define Nurture
Card 3
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Reductionism is the belief that human behavior can be explained by breaking it down into smaller component parts.
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Card 4
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Holism refers to any approach that emphasizes the whole rather than their constituent parts. In other words ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’.
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Card 5
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Free will assumes that we are free to choose our behavior, in other words we are self determined e.g.. people can make a free choice as to whether to commit a crime or not (unless they are a child or they are insane).
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