Counterpoint of not reductionist

• 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