LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY

REDUCTIONISM AND HOLISM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Environmental reductionism reduces the causes of behaviour to ____ links?
A
Stimulus-reactive
B
Stimulus-response
C
Stimulus-retention
D
Stimulus-review
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Environmental reductionism is also known as stimulus-response reductionism. Behaviourists assume that all behaviour can be reduced to the simple building blocks of S-R (stimulus-response) associations and that complex behaviours are a series of S-R chains.

Detailed explanation-2: -Biological Reductionism refers to the way that biological psychologists try to reduce behaviour to a physical level and explain it in terms of neurons, neurotransmitters, hormones, brain structure, etc.

Detailed explanation-3: -Environmental reductionism proposes that we are at the mercy of out environment, and react passively to it. For example, phobias are developed as a result of a stimulus response link.

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