AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Holism is often referred to as Gestalt psychology. It argues that behavior cannot be understood in terms of the components that make them up. This is commonly described as ‘the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.

Detailed explanation-2: -Humanistic psychology also advocates a holistic approach, as it argues that humans react to stimuli as an organised whole, rather than a set of stimulus-response links. As an approach, it uses qualitative methods to investigate all aspects of the individual, as well as the interactions between people.

Detailed explanation-3: -in neuroscience, the perspective that the functions of the brain are a result of the brain working as whole. According to this perspective, functions cannot be assigned to specific brain regions as brain activity can only be understood in terms of the workings of the entire organ.

Detailed explanation-4: -The psychodynamic approach is reductionist in so far as it relies on a basic set of structures that attempt to simplify a very complex picture (e.g. id, ego, superego, unconscious mind).