Editing Cognitive development (section)

=== Transgender people ===
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Since the 2010s there has been an increase in research into how [[transgender]] people fit into cognitive development theory.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Fast |first1=Anne A. |last2=Olson |first2=Kristina R. |date=March 2018 |title=Gender Development in Transgender Preschool Children |journal=Child Development |language=en |volume=89 |issue=2 |pages=620–637 |doi=10.1111/cdev.12758 |pmid=28439873 |issn=0009-3920|doi-access=free }}</ref> At the earliest, transgender children can begin to socially transition during identity exploration. In 2015, [[Kristina Olson]] and colleagues studied transgender youth in comparison to their [[cisgender]] siblings and unrelated cisgender children. The students participated in the IAT, a test that measures how one may identify based on a series of questions related to memory. Overall it determines a child's gender preference. It showed that the transgender children's results correlated with their desired gender. The behaviors of the children also related back to their results. For instance, the transgender boys enjoyed food and activities typically associated and enjoyed by cisgender boys. The article reports that the researchers found that the children were not confused, deceptive, or oppositional of their gender identity, and responded with actions that are typically represented by their gender identity.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Transgender Kids Show Consistent Gender Identity Across Measures |url=https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/transgender-kids-show-consistent-gender-identity-across-measures.html |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=Association for Psychological Science - APS |language=en-US}}</ref>