Counterpoint of not reductionist

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    • P- having said that, reductionist approaches may be more scientific
    • E- this is because the ideal of science is the experiment and experiments reduce behaviour to be independent and dependant variables
    • E- one issue with humanistic psychology is that, unlike behaviourism, there are relatively few concepts that can be broken down to single variables and measured
    • L- this means that humanistic psychology in general is short on empirical evidence to support its claims
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