Holism
The whole picture
Can not predict the behaviour of a whole system from individual parts
Gestalt
Perception, what we see doesn’t make sense as individual components only as a bigger picture
Humanistic
We react as a whole rather than a set of links
Reductionism
Levels of explanation
explanations begin at the highest level and work down to components
Biological reductionism
Behaviour such as attachment is explained in terms of a stimulus causing a response