Reductionism

• Behaviourist:

  Reduced complex learning into stimulus-response units for ease of testing in a controlled lab environment
• Social learning:

  Recognises how cognitive factors interact with the external environment
• Cognitive:

  Machine reductionism: use of the information-processing analogy and the fact that it ignores human emotion
• Biological:

  Reduces and explains human behaviour at the level of the gene or neuron
• Psychodynamic:

  Reduces behaviour to the influence of biological drives and instincts.
• Humanistic:

  Anti-reductionist, based on holistic investigation of all aspects of the individual