LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

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: -One of the major benefits of reductionism is that it allows researchers to look at things that can be incredibly varied and complex such as the human mind and behavior, and break them down into smaller parts that are easier to investigate. It allows researchers to focus on a specific problem.

Detailed explanation-3: -Reductionism holds that an entity is a function of its parts; holism holds that wholes have properties not reducible to parts. Reductionists assert that the essence of the entity is a function of its parts, and thus knowledge of the parts is adequate for knowledge of the whole.