Social psych report

Social Psychology Research Report

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PSYCHOLOGY

PROJECT 3: VIDEO CLIP AND RESEARCH REPORT

GROUP MEMBERS:

Bektur Kenzhaev 0311530

Ong Jia Hui 0317752

Nurin Abdullah 0318596

Wong Zhen Fai 0317890

GROUP/SESSION:

Monday 8am-10am

SUBJECT/COURSE:

FNBE 02/14 Psychology

SUBMISSION DATE:

8th December 2014


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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First and foremost, we would like to express our deepest appreciation to all

who had provided us the possibility to complete the project, both of the video clip and

research report. A special gratitude to our Psychology lecturer, Mr. Shankar for giving

us the final project’s instruction, guidance and help when we are needed.

Then, we would like to acknowledge with much appreciation to Taylor’s

University for giving the permission to use the open space in campus as our location

to film the video clips.

Furthermore, a special gratitude to Wong Zhen Fai for being a responsible

team leader who has always been motivating the team in order to achieve the goals of

the project. Not to be forgotten, to the remaining members in the group – Bektur, Jia

Hui and Nurin, a special thanks to all of them for giving the ideas, efforts,

cooperation, tolerance towards each other and most importantly to work as a team.

Last but not least, many thanks to our family and close friends for giving

endless moral supports since Day 1 of the project, and who have been the constant

source of our inspiration during the preparation of the project. We are really

appreciative towards all the contributions that were given.

Thank you.


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TABLE TO CONTENT

1.0 Introduction 4

2.0 Method

2.1 Participants 5

2.2 Apparatus/Materials 5

2.3 Procedure 6

3.0 Discussion

3.1 Applied Theories 7-11

3.2 Conclusion 12

4.0 References 13

5.0 Appendix 14-15


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1.0 INTRODUCTION

In a group of 4, this project requires the students to conduct a social psychology

conceptual video clip and a depth research on how it is related to the real life

experience. This 3-5 minutes video must consists of materials and theories that have

been taught and discussed in class.

The concepts that we used for the video were non-verbal communication,

attraction, racism, confirmation bias and lastly, aggression.

The aim of incorporating these concepts into the video clip is to imply that the

societies in the whole wide world carry out their routines in such a way that is directly

or indirectly related to social psychologies. No matter in which field, such concepts

will still affect them and their perceptions towards things around them.

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2.0 METHOD

2.1 Participants

The whole concept of the storyline shows two individuals who became a couple

shortly after, of which comprised the involvement of the parents and close friends.

Therefore – race, religions and age group are the key of our experiment.

2.2 Apparatus/Materials

SCENES APPARATUS SETTINGS

Scene 1 – Bektur and Jia

Hui’s first meeting

Mobile phone, files,

books, keys, umbrella,

camera

Lake waterfront, car

park

Scene 2 – Bektur and Jia Hui

went out for a date

Mobile phone,

umbrella, camera

In front of Tangerine,

lake waterfront

Scene 3 – Jia Hui brought

Bektur back and introduced

him to her dad, James

Newspaper, table, chair,

camera

Garden near the lake

waterfront

Scene 4 – Conversation

between Jia Hui and Nurin

Chairs, table, mobile

phone, camera

Mekong House, Syopz

Scene 5 – Bektur and Jia Hui

get married but then, Bektur

abused Jia Hui

A tin of beer, chair,

scissor, blade, bruises

make up, camera

Corridor at Block C,

Level 8


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2.3 Procedure

i. Each member in the team was assigned with different roles. Jia Hui and

Bektur as the main actor and actress, James as Jia Hui’s father and Nurin as

Jia Hui’s friend.

ii. Get an appropriate setting to film the scene. This is necessary because we

wanted to portray/imitate the real life situations.

iii. Start filming the scene. Actor/actress must follow the script and dialogue that

has been composed (Appendix 1.0).

iv. Actor/actress must use the apparatus (Method 2.2) that has been discussed as a

group to make the scene more realistic.

v. Steps (i) to (iii) were repeated at different settings and with different materials

until we are satisfied.

vi. Combine all the scenes and edited them into one video clip.


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3.0 DISCUSSION

3.1 Applied Theories

The video clip must consist of five materials or theories that have been taught and

learnt in the classroom. Each scene in the video clip carries its own theory and this

will be discussed further on.

First Scene

Theory: Non-Verbal Communication (Chapter 4)

Definition: Process of communication through sending and receiving wordless

(mostly visual) cues between people. This can be identified through the behaviour,

gestures, body movement and face expression that have been applied in one self.

Explanation: When Jia Hui’s item fall all over the place on the floor, Bektur bended

all the way down and tried to help Jia Hui. The act of bending down and collecting

the items were proofs that body movements, hand gestures and eyes gazing (non-

verbal communications) were applied in this situation. Next, when Bektur got Jia

Hui’s number phone, he was smiling widely, indicating that he is happy through his

facial expression without any words being said.

Bektur expressing himself through eye contacts and facial expressions.


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Second Scene

Theory: Attraction (Chapter 10)

Definition: Attraction refers to the act or power of evoking interest in or liking for

something or someone (either romantic or social attractions).

Explanation: Due to physical attractiveness of both individuals, they were attracted

to each other. Physical attractiveness can be either the looks, the clothes, or other sort

of things. In this scene, Bektur was attracted to Jia Hui due to her pretty and cute face.

Bektur was attracted towards Jia Hui.

Physical attractiveness from both sides.


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Third Scene

Theory: Racism (Chapter 7)

Definition: Racism is the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics

or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior

to another race or races. It is also a form of prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism

directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is

superior.

Explanation: As the father, James objected Jia Hui’s choice and her decision to have

a relationship with Bektur. In this video clip, James was being very racist when he

found out that Bektur was a Muslim. He showed his distaste towards Muslims when

he asked if Jia Hui and her future generations will also convert to Muslims. From the

question “have you seen the news, all the terrorist are muslims?” is also another proof

that James is being racist. He also went as far as using the word “foreigner” to

describe Bektur just because Bektur was a Muslim.

James was being racist towards Bektur.


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Fourth Scene

Theory: Confirmation Bias

Definition: Confirmation bias (which also known as myside bias) is a tendency of an

individual to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypothesis

regardless of whether the information is true

Explanation: Nurin disapproved with Jia Hui’s idea to run away and get married with

Bektur. Nurin was questioning Jia Hui about her safety because they just met for a

few weeks but Jia Hui insisted on saying that Bektur was a nice person even though

they just not long ago and she hardly knows him at all. Together with that, Jia Hui

also gave evidence that Bektur had been taking care of her when she was sick. From

the scene, we can see that Jia Hui is having confirmation bias towards Bektur even

without considering Nurin’s opinion.

Jia Hui was biased towards the good of Bektur even though they just met a few weeks

ago and she barely knew him.


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Fifth Scene

Theory: Aggression (Chapter 9)

Definition: Aggression is a type of behaviour that intends to harm another individual

either verbal or physical actions.

Explanation: In this last scene, Bektur proposed to Jia Hui. However, after having

her hand in marriage for about a month or so, Bektur started being aggressive both

mentally and physically. This can be seen as Jia Hui’s hands were covered with

bruises, and was squatting down at a corner with blade, rubbish and chair scattered

around with Bektur drinking a can of beer, indicating that domestic violence had

happened.

Bruises were seen on Jia Hui’s hands.

Domestic violence was implied.


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3.2 Conclusion

The field of social psychology has no ends to it and the concepts we incorporated in

the video was just a very small part of it. As it is, the way of how people carry

themselves, their attitude and perceptions towards people and things are greatly

affected by it.


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4.0 REFERENCES

1. McLeod, S. A. (2011). Psychology Research Report. Retrieved from

http://www.simplypsychology.org/research-report.html

2. Guari Sarda-Joshi, PhD Candidate, 2014, Nonverbal Communication, Retrieved

from http://futurehumanevolution.com/social-psychology-nonverbal-communication

Social Psychology - Nonverbal Communication - The Future of Human Evolution

3. AllPsych and Heffner Media Group, Inc., 2003, Attribution and Attraction at

Psychology 101, Retrieved from

http://allpsych.com/psychology101/attribution_attraction.html

Attribution and Attraction in Psychology 101 at AllPsych Online

4. David G. Myers, 2007, Exploring social psychology

5. Stephen L. Franzoi, 2009, Social Psychology

http://www.simplypsychology.org/research-report.html

http://futurehumanevolution.com/social-psychology-nonverbal-communication

http://futurehumanevolution.com/social-psychology-nonverbal-communication




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5.0 APPENDIX

The Script

Narration

James: Love, a complicated word that everyone wishes to be tangled up in.

Have you ever been in love? Duh. But have you ever been in love with

a foreigner?Now that’s a different story. Look at this girl here. Young,

sweet, naive. But what happens when she meets a charming and

attractive foreigner? Well things are about to get really messy.

First Scene

Bektur: Excuse me, when you feel just now, I fell for you too. And, this might

be weird but can I have your number?

Jia Hui: That’s a really bad pick up line but here you go.

Bektur: Thank you. I’ll call you later. Thank you

Second Scene

Bektur: Uh, hello? It’s me, we met yesterday. Uh, are you free on, let’s say,

this Friday?

Third Scene

Jia Hui: Father..

James: Who’s this?

Jia Hui: My boyfriend.

James: What boyfriend? *pause* How long you guys have been together?

Bektur: Uh, for one month now.

James: One month? And one month you didn’t tell me anything?

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James: What are you again?

Bektur: I’m a muslim.

James: Muslim? *stares at Jia Hui* Are you going to convert to Muslim? Will

your son and daughter be a muslim? *shakes head* Did you read the

news? Do you know how all the terrorist today are all muslims? How

do you know that he’s not a terrorist? How do you know that he won’t

act like a terrorist? You’re dating an outsider.

Fourth Scene

Jia Hui: Nurin, do you remember Bektur? The one I told you about?

Nurin: Yeah.

Jia Hui: What do you think of him?

Nurin: I don’t know but he’s younger than you.

Jia Hui: Yeah but I’m actually planning to run away with him.


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Nurin: What? Are you serious? You’ve only met him for the past few weeks.

Are you sure that he can take care of you?

Jia Hui: He’s already taken good care of me for the past few weeks. He even

cooked me porridge when I was sick.

Nurin: Are you sure?

Jia Hui: Yes! I’m sure. He’s very kind. He wouldn’t even hurt a fly.

Nurin: Okay…

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