Overview: Throughout your coursework and professional career, it is extremely important that you write in your 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.

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Purdue Owl: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

Example of a Summary

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.

summarize the main ideas in paragraph form with a minimum of four (4) complete sent

Do not quote directly from the passage.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). 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 filmA 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.