We are more likely to be persuaded by the peripheral route to persuasion when we are distracted or busy.
Peripheral route of persuasion only effective if the listeners do not pay attention to the strength of the arguments of ideas, and only react to a specific impulse that brought out by the message.
I believe the answer is: universal across cultures
This mean that the stages of development that proposed by piaget could also be spotted in other society that had different custom/cultures than united states. From this, we can infer that the development is influenced by biological factors rather than environmental.