Psychoanalytic perspective Freud and Erikson were leading developers of the psychoanalytic perspective that “sees development as motivated by unconscious emotional drives and conflicts” (Matorell, Papalia, & Feldman, 2014, p.56). Both, came from a European perspective, but Freud’s psychoanalytic was based on sexuality and the “need to recognized and …show more content…
“According to Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory, children’s development is determined by both immediate and distant systems that typically influence each other” (Onchwari, Onchwari, & Keengwe, 2008, P. 271). Bronfenbrenner developed five systems of influence, from the child’s daily environment to the larger political, economic, and dominant belief systems around them (Matorell, Papalia, & Feldman, 2014). Bronfenbrenner and other contextualists, saw child and adolescent development as inseparable from their environment (Matorell, Papalia, & Feldman, 2014). Vygotsky’s theory overlaps both the cognitive and contextual perspective and his theory crossed both the social and culture aspects of the child (Matorell, Papalia, & Feldman,