Piaget's Cognitive Development Case Study

The last activity that we did was taking ten Q tips and made three attached squares and her assignment was to make a 4th enclosed box without adding an additional items. Once I told her to start she immediately started moving the Q tips around trying to create another box. After trying for a few minutes she then say there is no way to add another box.
Throughout these activities and questions Kimora is within the stage she should be according to Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development. She is nine-years- old and falls in the category of Concrete Operational both by Piaget’s standards and the tests performed throughout this case study.
Like Piaget Erikson also has a theory on how children develop and this is called Erikson’s Psychosocial

Theory which simply focuses on the social elements that influence individual development throughout a person’s life, such as the importance of family and peer context, and identifies eight stages of development. During each stage the individual faces and masters a new psychological and social challenge, each stage also comes with two developmental outcomes one positive one negative. At Kimora’s age we will look at stage four which is geared towards school-age children. At this stage we will look at Industry versus Inferiority, this stage of Erickson’s Theory focuses on children in elementary and middle school contexts who are learning to master many skills, such as reading, other school subjects, physical skills and sports, and though parents are still important teachers and peers within the school system become more influential. Children will develop a sense of industry when they have parents, teachers, and peers who provide the opportunity for them to successfully complete the task, learn information, and become competent or skilled in particular areas, however a child develop inferiority when the believe they are not competent and cannot do things.