LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY

REDUCTIONISM AND HOLISM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which term best describes an approach that explains things in terms of stimulus and response?
A
Reductionist
B
Holistic
C
A combination of reductionist and holistic
D
Environmental reductionism
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Behaviorism. Behaviorism uses a very reductionist vocabulary: stimulus, response, reinforcement, and punishment. These concepts alone are used to explain all behavior.

Detailed explanation-2: -Reductionism, or reductionist theory, is the idea that complicated behaviors and phenomena can be better explained by “reducing” them into small, simple pieces. The goal of reductionism is to make sense of the world around us rather than simply getting lost in the details.

Detailed explanation-3: -Environmental reductionism is a form of reductionism introduced and championed by many behaviorists. As the name suggests, this type of reductionism reduces the environmental influences on behavior to a stimulus-response relationship.

Detailed explanation-4: –A strength of a reductionist approach in psychology is that it reduces complex behaviours to simpler models which can make them easier to understand.

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