Early childhood study (Cognitive and psychosocial development).

Not all human beings respond equal to the stages of physical, cognitive and psychosocial development. Some children are born with abilities and other developed through the time. 

The objective of this research is to identify if a Salvadorian child develops his skills areas of development in a similar way in comparison in US child areas based on theories.
Are there factors that influence children to develop better their areas of development?
How Salvadorian children develop their cognitive and psychosocial areas in comparison to areas from US children?

My case of study was based on early aged child whose name is Daniel Alexander Díaz Barrera, he is six years old, he study kinder garden. He lives with his mother and his older sister, she is eight years old. 
 I studied him based on what some researchers have said about childhood stages in their theories of children´s development.

Daniel is in the preoperational stage. This stage start between two and seven years of age. During this time, children gain a better understanding of mental operation and begin thinking logically about concrete events, but have difficulty understanding in abstract or hypothetical concepts. By 6 or 7, must children develop the ability to conserve number, length, and liquid volume. Although, Piaget would argue that children are not able to understand this notion of conservation until they reach the concrete operational stage, I performed Piaget's conservation task. I put the liquid into two identical containers. Then, the liquid in one container changed such as tall and thin cup. Despite seeing that the liquid amounts were equal Daniel chose the tall and thin cup as the one that contained more liquid. However, he developed classification and seriation stage correctly.

Based on the theory and what I performed in my case of study. I could realize that Salvadorian children do not differ from reality of US children. Daniel was able to respond well at his age according to the preoperational stage. It is important to mention that this child is from the country side. However, it was not a problem for him to perform  the conservation of number, classification and seriation tasks correctly. Despite, it is true that not all children develop their areas in the same way. There are factors that influences in children development and it’s depend mostly on the parent’s background, the education that children receives from their parents and teachers. Finally, it is clear to me that in some areas Daniel presents a high level in cognitive and psychosocial development like an 8 years age child. 

References

About.com Psychology. Preoperational Stage of Cognitive Development. Retrieved from http://psychology.about.com/od/piagetstheory/p/preoperational.htm

 

WebMD. (2012). Piaget Stages of Development.Retrieved November 06, 2012, from http://www.webmd.com/children/piaget-stages-of-development

 

About.com Psychology. Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development. Retrieved from http://psychology.about.com/od/psychosocialtheories/a/psychosocial.htm

 

Example of Piaget liquid conservation task. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ioMR8C9GI