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1. Piaget first studied his own children then extended it to children in the city of Geneva. Critics of his work state that he failed to take into account different cultures and many of the developmental ages for stages occur earlier than he theorized. While studies do find that many of the stages are universal there are some exceptions. For example according to Lonner and Malpass (1994) Australian Aboriginal children develop faster than other children in spatial domain than quantification. This culture does not quantify and their number words only go up till five. In contrast children from some tribes in Africa develop faster than other children in quantification than spatial domain. Thus it is important to note that culture is what values and promotes what is necessary to learn for survival.