23: Dialectical and Transactional Perspectives Last updated Save as PDF Page ID9405 Contributed by Ellen A. Skinner, Thomas A. Kindermann, Robert W. Roeser, Cathleen L Smith, Andrew Mashburn & Joel SteelePortland State UniversityPublished by Portland State University Library 23.1: Dialectic and Transactional Perspectives23.2: What are we talking about now? Have we left the realm of psychology and landed in philosophy?23.3: What is a “transaction”?23.4: What are the components of the transactional perspective?23.5: What is the Contextual model?23.6: What is the Regulation model?23.7: What is the Representational model?23.8: How do these four components fit together into a unified theory of development?23.9: What is the process formulation of the unified theory?23.10: Where is the representational model in the unified theory?23.11: Any clues about what prompts development in the unified theory?23.12: What are the important take-home messages from dialectical-transactional meta-theories?