Reductionism vs Holism

What does reductionism mean?

• Seeing a person as a whole

• Breaking something down into its individual parts

• Realistic, like an everyday task

• Being consistent

What is holism?

• Religious research

• Breaking something down into its individual parts

• Seeing something as a whole

• Sensory information

Bartlett's Theory of Reconstructive Memory suggests that...

• We remember things exactly as they happened

• Our memory is influenced by our schemas

• There are 3 stores in memory

• We never omit details when we recall a memory

The Multi-Store Model of Memory suggests that...

• We remember everything our senses take in

• Long-term memory can only hold 5-9 chunks

• Short-term memory has an unlimited capacity

• There are 3 memory stores that information passes through

Bartlett's Theory of Reconstructive Memory is

• Holistic

• Reductionist

• Objective

• Not important

The MSM of memory is

• Too complicated

• Holistic

• Reductionist

• A modern model

A strength of reductionism is

• Validity

• Reliability

• Scientific nature

• Generalisability

A weakness of holism is

• No application

• Unscientific

• Not supported by evidence

• Too simple