Reductionism and Holism

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Clues

  • An approach which argues that an individual reacts as an organised whole rather than as a set of S-R links (10, 10)
  • An approach which argues that memory behaves differently as a whole than its individual connectionist networks (9, 10)
  • An approach which argues that what we see only makes sense when considering the whole (7, 10)
  • Breaking a complex system into its simpler components (12)
  • The individual parts do not express the essence of the whole (6)

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