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Social Psychology Journal!#####

Full name : Woo Shir Ley##

Student ID : 0317732##

Group/Session : Monday 8am##

Subject : Social Psychology [PSYC0103]##

Course : Foundation in Natural and Built Environment##

Submission date : 10 November 2014

26 Aug 2014 7:00PM Self-Efficacy## #

Self-efficay involved in two type, high-efficacy and low efficacy.

High-efficacy is people who faced difficult, he treated it as a challenge.

For low-efficacy person, he will escape or avoid it.#

#During my secondary school day, i have a friend called Xue

Ying, She is a high self-efficacy person. Every time she received tasks

that she was not good in it, she can still finish it with faith. Example, she

is not good in math, she always got scolded by teacher as her math

result was terrible, but this doesn't make her avoided this situation, she

do exercises and even still finished the exercise given by the teacher.

She set a goal for herself, score full marks in math exam. #

#On the other hand, another friend Geok Lian was a low self-

efficacy person. She also faced the same problem, but she had decided

to escape from this problem. She don't want to do those exercise and

she always skipped math class. She always blamed the teacher and she

believe that she will never get good result.#

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26 Aug 2014 11:00PM False Consensus#

#False consensus is people judge a thing/person by its negative

image. For example, most of the bad guy had tattoo on their body, so

people implant themselves that “people who had tattoo on their body is

bad guy”. Majority of people have a mind of “people who got tattoo on

body” is a gangster. Some of people even judged them and keep a

distance from them. Parents taught their children to not get a tattoo as

its a symbol of awful.#

#When i was young, my parent implanted me a mind of getting

tattoo is worst and bad. Even in the school, getting tattoo is prohibited

and its stated on the school rules. #

#During my church service session, i saw a guy that with some

alphabet tattoo that showed obviously on his left hand, its rare to seen a

person that who has tattoo attending church service. My first impression

to this guy was bad. But after told me about his story of the tattoo on his

hand, i totally change my mind. The tattoo on his hand is actually to

marked the date when God save his life from death. There is a meaning

behind. Another case, In Iban culture you could found tattoo on a man.

The meaning of having tattoo is their significant of glory, they won a fight

so they use tattoo to show others how powerful they are.


2 Sept 2014 7:00pm

Counterfactual Thinking##

Counterfactual thinking is a past that doesn't happen. It divided

into two type, which is Upward counterfactual and downward

counterfactual. #

#Upward counterfactual is associated with negative respond.

Example that i can remember is when i got bad result on business test, i

said to myself “if only i spent my sleeping time to study business of

sleeping”. I was regret, so i wont let this problem happen again. This

help me to avoid the same situation happen next time.#

#Downward counterfactual is associated with positive respond.

That day i falled down from the stage, luckily i didn't broke my leg.

Another experience, my friend had a positive personalities. One day, she

involved in a car accident, she told herself to calm down and luckily she

didn't broke her leg. Its helped her to stay clam.


16 September 2014 7:00PM Confirmation bias#

#Confirmation bias is what is the way you select or find your

information. If you dislike a person, you may only search the bad side of

that person to support your own view. #

#Another experience is recently i had confirmation bias on Ms S,

whatever she did i sure would judge her. One day, i saw her hugging a

guy beside the lake, i shocked and spread the rumour. I believed that

Ms S is the kind of person that unfriendly and has a hidden motive to

approaching to that guy.During my working day at a bookshop, i work as

a cashier. One day, a family came to counter to pay their stuff. I

remembered the lucky draw flyer was took by youngest son. After the

mother took their stuff off my counter, she realised she lost the lucky

draw flyer. But actually the flyer is with the youngest. The mother blame

the big brother. She said “ I asked you to help me take the flyer, why u

gave it to your younger brother? Why you always so careless” The big

brother soon to respond and trying to defend himself. But the mother

continued scolded him. She said “Now you blame your younger brother

la? you are the eldest, you should take responsible”. The mother make

shame in front of everyone, and told me the biggest son is lazy and

irresponsible. The next moment the mother ask the big brother to carry

the stuff. From i opinion, the mother is ridiculous. She had confirmation

bias on his big son. Im glad that she is not my mom. #

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20 Octorber 2014 7:00PM Reciprocation#

Reciprocation is like someone has given me a gift or do me a

favour that i unexpected, i would have a feeling of returning something

back to that person. In the other way, i treat a person nicely and i hoping

for a repay. From my experience, the management of the grocery

supermarket using this way to let people buy their things. Me and my

mom walked in a grocery store, the friendly worker approached us

starting to introduce their item and given us the free sample, me and my

mom felt guilty so we bought their item. #

#During Chiness New Year, me and my friends would bought

mandarin orange to people house, and before we asking for Ang Pow,

we would said “something good” to elder, although this is a kind of

culture, the elder must give the younger Ang Pow. But for this situation

is, we hope for higher amount of Ang Pow.#

#During my working day, i worked at a Korean BBQ restaurant at

Johor Bahru. I served the customer, i make them felt like they are very

important customer. Example, i chatted and talked to them, and gave

them extra service like if they want to refill the side dishes i risked my life

to sneaked into the kitchen and refill the side dishes for the customer.

And all i want from them is a praise or tips. Another example, the

customer is troublesome and bad attitude, but i still served the customer

nicely. And i made them felt guilty as my smile is always on my face

however they treat me with their bad attitude. So in the end they gave

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23 September 2014 7:00PM Observational learning#

Observational learning is you observe what your people do, you

imitated it.#

When i was young, i saw my mom used left hand to hold spoon

and right hand to hold the fork. So i learned from her used this method

and i thought this is the correct way to use fork and spoon. One day, i

lunch with friends in a Bubba Grum. i saw Weishuen used her left hand

to hold her fork and right hand is using spoon. Then i question her, she

also learned this method from her family. Now i realised, everything i

had learned by observe my mom action, that i thought was correct may

wrong.#

#Balanced Theory#

Balanced theory is how you develop relationship with others.#

GxxY like Lyxxxxx. One day, Mr G wanted invite Ms L to a

bicycle trip as Mr G is a huge fan of bicycle riding. But Ms L dislike to

ride bicycle, as she had phobia on bicycle riding. This caused

Unbalanced.From my experience, I met a guy at church service. I found

i like that guy, and the guy like me too. Both of us is Christian and we

always went church service together. He like to worship god and me too.

Both of us joined the same cell group and same ministry in church, he

like to meet new people so he joined usher team and I like to meet new

people too so i joined too. This created a balance theory. We both in the

sam religion and we both has the same interested.


2 September 2014 10:00PM Self-fulfilling prophecy#

Self-fulfilling prophecy is positive or negative expectations of

events or people that may causes a person behaviour toward the things,

its like creating something to happen by believing it will come true.#

During my secondary school day, i expect i can challenged

10km marathon, so i spent time to training and buy good quality shoe for

myself, and i finished the 10km marathon i even got into the top ten.#

#Another experience, i expected my ITD project group can get

good result on ITD project, i spent my time doing model together, and

ended up we got an A on this project. On the other hand, i expected my

business group will less productive as in my group got four guys, so i

stayed quiet and work lesser, and now seem like the whole group is

unproductive and the submission date is next week.#

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16 September 2014 7:45PM Halo Effect#

The first outernal impression can effect how you think what he

is.#

During my first day of school, i saw a girl wearing a ZARA smart

dress and Ray Ban sunglasses i though she is rich. I stayed a distance

from the girl. And i saw a guy who talkative, i assumed he is friendly and

helpful. Then soon i become his best friend.#

#Other than that, i had to choose a place to bring my mother to

dinner as that day is her birthday. I choose a restaurant that decorated

with flower and the atmosphere is filled with lavender smell, the light is

yellow, the chief is wearing a tall hat. I assumed this restaurant can

provide me good quality food and service.


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