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Discovering Psychology: video notes and objectives 5-6

For each half-hour video unit, produce a one-page bulleted outline of its content, and separately answer every learning objective question in the supplied packet, stating each question before your response and citing page references from the Zimbardo text for each answer.

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Last reviewed · August 14, 2026

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Two separate deliverables, and the citation rule

Read the deliverable structure before starting, because the instruction separates two things that students routinely merge. First, one page per half-hour video unit of bullets outlining that lecture's content — no more than one page, so it is a summary and not a transcript. Second, and separately, answers to every learning objective question in the attached packet, with each question stated before your response. Merging them produces a document that satisfies neither: the bullets stop being a usable summary and the objective answers lose the question-then-answer structure. Keep them as two clearly divided parts of the submission, and state each objective question verbatim so the marker can see which one you are answering without cross-referencing the packet. The one-page cap on the bullets is the other constraint worth respecting exactly, because it forces you to decide what the unit was actually about rather than recording everything that was said in it.

The citation requirement is the part that most affects your grade and it is easy to under-serve. You are told to cite page references from the text for each of your answers, and the instruction adds that the inside covers indicate which chapters correspond to which videos. So use that mapping: watch the unit, find the chapter, and locate the pages that answer each objective. A page reference on every answer is the checkable part. On content, the objectives listed run across development and language — the primary interest of developmental psychologists, longitudinal and cross-sectional and sequential designs, cognitive development across the lifespan, Piaget's stages, habituation studies in infants, and then syntax, grammar, semantics, the language-making capacity, Chomsky's innateness hypothesis and motherese. Several are definitional and should be answered precisely rather than expansively, since the packet is long and an essay-length answer to a one-line objective costs you room you will need later.

Likely learning objectives

Inferred from the brief — check these against your own rubric.

  • 01
    Summarise a lecture's content in bullets within a one-page limit.
  • 02
    State and answer each learning objective question separately.
  • 03
    Locate the text chapters that correspond to each video unit.
  • 04
    Cite specific page references in support of each answer.
  • 05
    Distinguish longitudinal, cross-sectional and sequential developmental designs.
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Assignment Primary Interest of Developmental Psychologists Primary Interest of Developmental Psychologists Text: Psychology Core Concepts: Zimbardo, Johnson and Hamilton 7TH EDITION (978-0-205183463) I cant found the text online maybe you can Or You can access The Discovering Psychology video series on the internet for free! Go to www.learner.org Click on the blue tab near the top that reads “view programs” Many film series will be listed. They are in alphabetical order. Scroll down to Discovering Psychology: Updated Edition. Click on it. All 26 episodes from the series are listed in order. Double click on the box that says “VoD” next to the episode you wish to view. That’s it! Type 1 page for each ½ hour video unit where you submit bullets outlining the content of each ½ hour lecture (not more than one page in length) AND, SEPARATELY, ANSWER ALL LEARNING OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS FROM THE ATTACHED/ENCLOSED PACKET( state each question before each of your responses. Make sure you cite page references from the text for each of your answers). ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS CAN BE FOUND IN VIDEO AND TEXT INSIDE FRONT AND BACK COVER OF TEXT WILL TELL YOU WHAT CHAPTERS CORRELATE WITH WHICH VIDEOS). Objectives 5 After viewing the television program and completing the assigned readings, you should be able to: 1. State the primary interest of developmental psychologists. 2. Describe the various ways that development is documented, including longitudinal, cross sectional and sequential. 3. Describe cognitive development across the lifespan. 4. Identify Piaget’s stages of cognitive development. Assignment Primary Interest of Developmental Psychologists 5. Describe some contemporary perspectives on early cognitive development. 6. Describe physical development across the lifespan. 7. Describe how habituation studies can be used on infants to determine what they can understand. 8. Describe several ways that we know infants are not born as blank slates, but instead, come equipped with temperaments, preferences, and biases. 9. Describe several ways that the environment is known to affect skills and behaviors. Objectives 6 After viewing the television program and completing the assigned readings, you should be able to: 1. Describe the structure of language, including syntax, grammar, and semantics. 2. Define a child’s “language making capacity.” 3. Provide evidence of the universality of language acquisition and the way it progresses. 4. Explain Chomsky’s hypothesis that humans are born with an innate biological capacity for language acquisition. 5. Explain how “motherese” (or “parentese”) helps babies learn to communicate. 6. Describe the use of intonation by both young children and adults in their communication with each other.
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Turn the brief into deliverables

  1. 01
    One page of bullets per half-hour video unit outlining its content.
  2. 02
    A separate section answering all learning objective questions from the packet.
  3. 03
    Each objective question stated before its answer.
  4. 04
    A page reference from the Zimbardo text for every answer.
  5. 05
    Coverage of both Objectives 5 and 6 in full.
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Bullets per unit, then objectives 5 and 6

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Unit bullets

One page per half-hour unit, capturing the lecture's structure and claims.

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Objective 5: development and its measurement

The interest of developmental psychologists and the three study designs.

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Objective 5: cognitive development

Piaget's stages, contemporary perspectives and habituation evidence in infants.

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Objective 5: nature and environment

Temperament and biases at birth, and environmental effects on skills and behaviour.

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Objective 6: language structure and acquisition

Syntax, grammar, semantics, language-making capacity and universality of acquisition.

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Objective 6: innateness and input

Chomsky's hypothesis, motherese and the role of intonation in early communication.

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The video series and the assigned text together

Recommended databases

  • Discovering Psychology: Updated Edition via Annenberg Learner
  • Zimbardo, Johnson and Hamilton, Psychology Core Concepts, 7th edition
  • MedlinePlus
  • StatPearls via NCBI Bookshelf
  • PsycINFO

Search sequence

  1. 1.
    Use the inside covers of the text to map each video unit to its chapters.
  2. 2.
    Watch the unit and take the bullets as you go, within one page.
  3. 3.
    Read the mapped chapter and locate the pages answering each objective.
  4. 4.
    Record the page number alongside each answer as you write it.
  5. 5.
    Check any definitional objective against a second reference for precision.
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Reference shortlist

These are authoritative starting points, not a ready-made bibliography. A qualified reviewer must confirm that each source fits the assignment and supports the claim beside which it is cited.

Nothing here is cleared for citation until you have read it.

  1. 01

    Annenberg Learner - Annenberg Learner

    Annenberg Learner · 2024

    The video series the assignment is built on, including the unit ordering.

  2. 02

    Piaget

    StatPearls, NCBI Bookshelf · 2024

    Piaget's stages of cognitive development, which several Objective 5 questions turn on.

  3. 03

    Child Development

    MedlinePlus, National Library of Medicine · 2024

    Developmental milestones across domains, useful for checking answers on physical and cognitive development.

  4. 04

    Speech and Language Developmental Milestones

    National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders · 2024

    The acquisition sequence underpinning the Objective 6 questions on language universality.

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Review before submission

Common mistakes

  • Merging the video bullets and the objective answers into one document.
  • Exceeding the one-page limit per unit by transcribing rather than summarising.
  • Answering the objectives without restating the questions.
  • Omitting page references, which are explicitly required for each answer.
  • Answering definitional objectives at essay length and running out of room for the rest.
  • Skipping the inside-cover mapping and guessing which chapters correspond to the videos.

Submission checklist

  • Each video unit has its own one-page bulleted outline.
  • The objective answers form a separate section.
  • Every question is stated before its answer.
  • Every answer carries a page reference.
  • All objectives under both 5 and 6 are answered.
  • Definitional answers are precise rather than expansive.

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