SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN

THE DESIGN SCHOOL

FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT

NAME: LING HUI SIM

STUDENT ID NO: 0313855

SUBMISSION DATE: 20TH NOVEMBER 2013

1st JOURNAL: Self-Concept

“Self-concept is our perception or image of our abilities and our uniqueness. At first one's

self-concept is very general and changeable... As we grow older, these self-perceptions

become much more organized, detailed, and specific.”

During class, we were asked to write down 5 different list of our self-concept starting

with “I am... My list: I am friendly, I am a girl that has a mustache, I am awesome, I am

nice and I am crazy.

After that, we were asked to sit together in circle and listen to each other’s list. After I

listened to others people list, my list was all about me but my friend’s list is related to her

family. For an example, I am my father’s daughter.

2nd JOURNAL: Vision

Today, our class is about Vision. Vision is defined as the act or power of sensing with the

eyes. We have learnt something about colour in class. Colours can change our mood and

attract us. For example, red colour catches our eyes the most but the problem is when a

guy is wearing a red shirt, they won’t be attractive. When a girl is wearing red shirt, it

will directly attract others and more sexually desirable.

Then, we learnt about reversible figure. There some people can’t see the two figure in a

picture. For an example, a picture that contain duck and rabbit, some people can see both

of it but some can only see one of it.

3rd JOURNAL: Attitudes

An attitude is somewhere between a belief, a stance, a mood, and a pose. If you've got an

attitude about something, it can be hard to change it because you think you're right.

There’s three component that related to attitude, which is Affective component,

Behavioral component and Cognitive component. In order for us to memories the tree

component easily, our lecturer Miss Chia told us to remember “A, B, C” for the three

component. Then, we learnt about reinforcement which is the consequences that

strengthen the responses. Moreover, we learnt about observational learning which they

have a model to follow their foot step. We need to focus on 4 things to learn about

something which is attention, retention, reproduction and motivation. Our lecturer Miss

Chia had given us to watch a video about an octopus’s observational learning. The man in

the video put a crab in a box which can be open in three ways. Then, they put it in the

aquarium which contain octopus inside. The octopus didn’t respond to the box. After that,

the man take the box and put it at the second aquarium which contain another octopus to

be a model for the first octopus that doesn’t know how to open the box and eat the crab.

After the first octopus has observed how the second octopus open the box and eat the

crab, the man put the box again filled with crab in the aquarium of the first octopus.

Finally, the first octopuses take action and open the box just like the second octopus and

eat the crab. What’s amaze me is the octopus know how to get out of the box because the

second octopus didn’t do that. Animal are smart by just following the simple 4 rules but

human, sometimes they just know what are they doing and automatically know things

because of their surrounding and how they observe.