Recent cross-cultural research on Piaget's theory has found that children in non-Western cultures move through the stages at a much slower rate than children in Western cultures. contrary to earlier findings, children from non-Western cultures usually perform better on Piagetian tasks than children from Western cultures. 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. Piaget's tasks cannot be adapted in ways that make them culturally relevant for cross-cultural research.