Developmental psychology article review

Article Summary Instructions

You will write two brief article summaries. One article will be a peer-reviewed research-based journal article of your choice that pertains to developmental psychology. The other article may also be a journal article, or you may choose a chapter/article from one of the following 4 volumes of the Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science:

Lerner, R. M., Overton, W. F. & Molenaar, P.C.M. (Eds.). (2015). Handbook of child
psychology and developmental science, Vol. 1: Theory and method (7th ed.). John Wiley & Sons. http://ezproxy.liberty.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/title/wileychild?institutionId=5072&tab=contents&institutionId=5072

Ulrich, M., Lerner, R. M., & Liben, L. S. (Eds.). (2015). Handbook of child psychology and
developmental science, Vol. 2: Cognitive processes (7th ed.). John Wiley & Sons. http://ezproxy.liberty.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/title/wileycpcpal?institutionId=5072&tab=contents&institutionId=5072

Lamb, M. E., & Lerner, R. M. (Eds.). (2015). Handbook of child psychology and developmental
science, Vol. 3: Socioemotional processes (7th ed.). John Wiley & Sons.
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Lerner, R. M., Bornstein, M. H., & Leventhal, T. (Eds.). (2015). Handbook of child psychology
and developmental science, Vol. 4: Ecological settings and processes (7th ed.). John
Wiley & Sons.
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A title page and abstract are not necessary. A reference page should be included that lists the APA-formatted reference of the article or chapter you summarized. No additional references are needed other than the reference for the article or chapter you are summarizing.

If you summarize a research article, the summary should focus on:
what was hypothesized
what was done
what was found
what was concluded

If you summarize a chapter/article from the Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, it is likely the chapter/article would include results of multiple studies, in which case the summary should focus more on the overall research findings related to the topic. If you summarize a journal article, the summary would focus more in depth on one research study; if you summarize a chapter/article from the Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, the focus would be more on the breadth of the overall research findings on the topic as reported in the chapter/article and less on the specific methodology of each study.
Follow this link: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals for a list of journals affiliated with the American Psychological Association (APA). These are not the only acceptable journals—many others are available and may be used for the assignment—but this list is provided to give you examples of scholarly journals. If you click “By Subject” and then click “Developmental Psychology,” you will see journals specific to developmental psychology. Child Development is another well-respected developmental psychology journal that is not affiliated with the APA. Some of the databases have the option to select “peer-reviewed” sources; selecting this option will help you eliminate non-scholarly sources from your search results. The Jerry Falwell Library is a reliable place to conduct your searches.