its all about the schools of thought of psychology
2007-06-27 00:56:16 · 3 answers · asked by psyche_dapar 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
If you go to the butcher and buy a steak, and the some kidneys, some leather from the tanneries etc; and if you stick all this in one spot you don't have a cow. You have a lump of meat.
A cow is not the sum of all its parts.
2007-06-27 01:55:23 · answer #1 · answered by Bonbu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the idea that all the properties of a given system (biological, chemical, social, economic, mental, linguistic, etc.) cannot be determined or explained by the sum of its component parts alone. Instead, the system as a whole determines in an important way how the parts behave.
2007-06-27 01:39:37 · answer #2 · answered by JOhn M 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
in a word: synergy...from the Greek "synergos", meaning working together. It refers to the phenomenon in which two or more discrete influences or agents acting together create an effect greater than that predicted by knowing only the separate effects of the individual agents.
In psychology, it means that the total of one's experiences, feelings, ideas, etc., cannot explain the conscious mind, or "soul", which is "greater than the sum of its parts", or experiences, knowledge, and senses.
2007-06-30 22:01:43 · answer #3 · answered by Kevin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋