Recent Cross-Cultural Research on Piaget's Theory Has Found That

question 56

Multiple Choice

Recent cross-cultural research on Piaget's theory has found that

• A) children in non-Western cultures move through the stages at a much slower rate than children in Western cultures.
• B) Piaget's tasks cannot be adapted in ways that make them culturally relevant for cross-cultural research.
• C) the stages that Piaget describes appear in the same order in other cultures, but the rate at which children move through the stages can differ.
• D) contrary to earlier findings, children from non-Western cultures usually perform better on Piagetian tasks than children from Western cultures.

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