reductionism vs holism

• biological 


  behaviour broken down into biological structures (biological reductionism)
• behaviourist 


  behaviour broken down into simple stimulus response associations (environmental reductionism)
• social learning theory


  shares elements of behaviourist and cognitive approach
• cognitive 


  behaviour is investigated in terms of isolated variables (environmental reductionism)
• psychodynamic 


  behaviour is reduced to innate drives, while taking into account the multiple aspects of human behaviour (reductionism and holism)
• humanistic 


  focus on understanding aspects of human experience and interaction (holism)