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Define Holism

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Process to study things in an indivisible system rather than breaking it down into constituent parts

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Define Reductionism

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Studying human behaviour by breaking it into smaller constituent parts

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Define Types of reductionism

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  1. Biological Reductionism
    Explains behaviour interns of neurons, hormones brain structure etc
  2. Environmental Reductionism
    Reducing behaviour into building blocks and stimulus-response
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Define Levels of explanation in psychology

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Different ways of viewing the same phenomena

  1. Socio-culrutral level (behaviour)
  2. Psychological level (individual experience)
  3. Physical level (movement)
  4. Physiological level (brain activity)
  5. Neurochemical level (hormones)
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Evaluation of holism

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+ provide more complete level of understanding

- if we look at everything its hard to say what is most influential

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Evaluation of reductionism

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+ More scientific, allows us to study each thing

  • Oversimplifying phenomena
  • Only gives partial explanation