35). A pivotal concept in Piaget's model and the hardest to grasp is that of schema Piaget believed there were four stages in the thinking process, these were the sensorimotor stage, the preoperational stage, the concrete operational stage and the formal operational stage.
Abraham Maslow looked at the humanistic side of development he believed there was a third force. Maslow focused on human experience, problems, potentials and ideals. . He believed that self-image, self-evaluation and frame reference as to how humans perceive themselves and experience the world.
Main Discussion.
Freud's theories were that children have sexual pleasures and fantasies long before they reach adolescence. one of his theories is the idea that behaviour is governed not only by conscious but by unconscious processes, according to freud, is an instinctual sexual drive he called the libido present at birth and forming the motive force behind virtually all our behaviour. According to this theory of infantile sexuality, developed in the first five or six years occurs in three psychosexual stages. Freud also believed that a parent's influence is crucial in helping the child through the stages of psychosexual development. Freud also argued that personality has a structure that develops over time there are three parts, the id the ego and the superego.in freuds theory, these three parts are not present at birth.
Apart from Freud the greatest influence on the study on development of Psychoanalytical behaviour has been Erik Erikson, (Erikson Erikson,1950,1959,1980b,1982,Erikson,Erikson & Kivnick,1986: Evans,1969). Erik Erikson (1902- ), Erikson shared most of Freud's basic assumptions but differed from him on several key points, by his own comprehensive theory of development he believed that there were three major aspects to development, that they are centered, not only on body parts but on each person's relationship to the social enviroment.
