Reductionism

 To introduce the reductionist debate  To apply the debate to substantive Psychological issues

 Reductionism is a scientific approach that tries to explain phenomena in terms of basic elements.  You can immediately see that some approaches are more reductionist than others.  Bio-psychologists investigate behaviour by looking at brain activity. This is a reductionist approach as it may ignore psychological and cultural variables

SPEED DATING! (KNOWLEDGE)  You will all be given a piece of card holding one or two arguments surrounding the reductionist debate.  You will be given 5 minutes to read through your argument(s), make brief notes in your own words and be ready to pass this information on to others with confidence  We will start the ‘speed dating’ process!  You will have 3 minutes with each date to get as much information as you can (you will be given pieces of card/paper to make some notes.)  Before you move on (to the sound of the whistle!), give your date a score out of 5 on your score card! (rewards will be given out to those with the highest scores!)

 Don’t worry if you haven’t seen everybody! As long as you have arguments from both sides!  You can now place your arguments on the ‘scales’ to represent which side of the argument they support!