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Due Date: 11:59 p.m. EST, Sunday of Unit 2
Points: 100
Overview:
Throughout your coursework and professional career, it is extremely important that you
write in your own words. You will often be tasked with reading psychological materials
and then to incorporate the content into a paper or other type of written or oral
presentation. At times, the material you are reading might be quite technical, and it may
be challenging for you to present these ideas in your own words. This is your
opportunity to practice this important skill.
Review the following websites to learn about summarizing:
• Purdue Owl: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
• Example of a Summary
Instructions:
For this assignment, you will:
• Read the passage (below) from your textbook.
• Think about the main ideas contained in the passage.
• Make a list of four (4) main ideas contained in the passage.
• In your own words, summarize the main ideas in paragraph form with a minimum
of four (4) complete sentences.
• Do not quote directly from the passage.
Textbook Passage:
Infants show an interest in human faces soon after birth (Sugden and Marquis, 2017). Figure
9 shows a computer estimation of what a picture of a face looks like to an infant at different
ages from a distance of about 6 inches. Infants spend more time looking at their mother’s face
than a stranger’s face as early as 12 hours after being born. By 4 months of age, infants
match voices to faces, distinguish between male and female faces, and discriminate between
faces of their own racial and ethnic group compared with those of other groups (Lee, Quinn, &
Pascalis, 2017; Otsuka, 2017).
PSY201 – Child Development
Summarization Assignment
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As infants develop, they change the way they gather information from the visual world,
including human faces. A study that illustrates this progression recorded eye movements of 3-,
6-, and 9-month-old infants as they viewed clips from an animated film—A Charlie Brown
Christmas (Frank, Vul, & Johnson, 2009). From 3 to 9 months of age, infants gradually began
focusing their attention more on the faces of the characters in the animated film and less on
salient background stimuli.
Summarize this paragraph in your own words and include the following reference
citation for your textbook below your summary:
Santrock, J. W., Deater-Deckard, K. D., & Lansford, J. E. (2020). Child development
(15th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education.
Requirements:
• Incorporate all main ideas into your own words.
• Use appropriate APA placement and style for in-text citations and the reference.
• Complete your work in a Microsoft Word document.
Be sure to read the criteria by which your work will be evaluated before you write
and again after you write.
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Evaluation Rubric for Summarization Assignment
CRITERIA Deficient Development
Needed Proficient Exemplary
0-32 points 33-43 points 44-49 points 50-55 points
Summary
Content
Did not summarize.
Only one main idea
was included.
Quoted excessively
or used word
substitutions
excessively.
Included an
excessive amount of
extra information not
found in original
source.
Demonstrated
adequate
understanding of
passage material.
Some main ideas
were incorporated.
Some quoting and/or
used word substitution
was present.
Included some extra
information not found
in original source.
Demonstrated
mastery of passage
material.
Incorporated most
main ideas. A few
word substitutions or
extra information
were included.
Demonstrated
excellent mastery of
passage essence.
Incorporated all
main ideas in own
words. Quotes,
word substitutions,
and extra
information were
not included.
0 points 4-5 points
Scholarly
Source
Reference citation
was absent.
— —
Reference citation
was included and
correct.
0-11 points 12-15 points 16-17 points 18-20 points
Structure and
Flow
Flow is poor.
Paragraphing is
inappropriate.
Transitions are
minimal or absent.
Significant
redundancy is
evident.
Flow is adequate.
Paragraphs may be
too long or too short.
Transitions are
minimal, and
redundancy is evident.
Flow is good.
Paragraphing is
mostly appropriate.
Transitions are
present, and
redundancies are
minimal.
Flow is excellent.
Paragraphing is
clear, and
transitions are
smooth and
consistent.
Inappropriate
redundancies are
absent.
0-11 points 12-15 points 16-17 points 18-20 points
Grammar and
Spelling
Errors impede
professional
presentation;
guidelines not
followed.
Numerous errors
somewhat interfere
with professional
presentation.
Few errors that do
not impede
professional
presentation.
Writing and format
are clear,
professional, and
error-free.
