Danielle is an 11-year-old 5th grader who is the youngest of four children and comes from a stable andloving two-parent home. She lives in suburban Georgia and walks to school each day. She enjoys the pianoand has been taking lessons for five years.Stephen is an 11-year-old boy abandoned by his parents as a child and raised in a foster home system,bouncing from family to family for the past four years. He currently lives with a couple fostering two otherchildren. He listens to alternative music on his headphones each day as he rides the public bus to theschool he attends in the economically depressed town of Smallville.

Compare and contrast these two children in terms of the impact of the following:

a. Erikson’s theories of psychosocial development.
b. Maturation