HOLISM

• Holism

  Believes understanding human behaviour can only be done through analysing the person or the behaviour as a whole
• Gestalt psychology

  • 1920s+30s Gestalt psychologists declared 'the whole is greater than the sum of its parts'
  • adopts a holistic approach to perception - when we perceive something in the real world we do so as a whole rather than as parts
• Humanistic psychology 


  • argues we must focus on individual's experiences
  • humans react to stimuli as a whole rather than a set of stimuli response links
  • uses qualitative methods