holism and reductionism

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Holism 
whole is greater than the sum of its parts
eg humanistic, qualitative approaches
reductionism 
levels of parsimony, reducing to simplest principles
biological reductionism  
physiological
neurochemical
evolutionary
genetic
environmental reductionism 
behaviour reduced to stimulus responses
eg love/attachment learnt through classical conditioning
AO3 - 
impractical and tend not to lend themselves to rigorous scientific testing eg too many factors contributing to depression
reductionist explanations oversimplify complex phenomena so loose validity
AO3 + 
reductionist explanations have scientific credibility
makes it possible to conduct experiments or record observations for example, Loftus & Palmer EWT

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