levels of explanations within reductionism

• socio-cultural level- behaviour is due to social and cultural norms,
• psychological level- behaviour is due to psychological explanations eg cognitive, behavioural, environmental
• biological level- neurochemical, genetic structures
• memory- explained in terms of the socio-cultural level of reductionism, Bartlett (1932) suggests that cultural expectations affect our schemas, which in turn effect what we remember and how we recall information
• psychological level of reductionism explanation- cognitive psychologists examine particular aspects of memory- such as miller (1956) who measured the short term memory capacity
• biological level of reductionism- maguire et al (2000) found significantly differing amounts of grey matter in the brain of black cab drivers compared to a control group