SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY VIDEO REPORT

FNBE JULY 2013 – PSYC0103 Social Psychology

Name: Vicky Lee Wei Kee, Lai Sze Chun, Tan Zi Cin, Tan Jessie

Report

Social Psychology (PSYC0103)

Assignment 1

Vicky Lee Wei Kee (0313317)

Lai Sze Chun (0313797)

Tan Zi Cin (0314079)

Tan Jessie (0313552)



INTRODUCTION

At the beginning of the semester, we are asked to from a group of four for

assignment 3. For this assignment, we are required to do a video clip by incorporating

the concepts learned in class, written report of the clip and presenting the clip to the

class. The purpose of this assignment is to allow students to recognize and identify

the connections among concepts and perspectives within psychology and with other

disciplines. Besides, students will learn how to apply all these concepts taught in real

life. By applying into our real life, students would have a better understanding of the

concepts hence strengthen our knowledge of social psychology. This would help in

everyone’s life especially in the aspect of communication with others, and this would

reduce misunderstanding from happening.



Summary of the video clip

Scene 1

Venue: Taylor’s Amphitheatre

One day, Vicky is sitting alone at the amphitheatre, playing with her phone while

waiting for the bus. She is listening to the music and scrolling the news feed in the

Facebook page. At that moment, her friend, Rave came and sit down beside Vicky.

Rave chit chatted a little and then saw a post of a pretty girl from Vicky’s phone. He

was attracted to the girl and began asking information of the girl from Vicky. Vicky

began introducing her course mate, Jessie to Rave and teasing him. Rave was so

attracted to Jessie and asked Vicky for Jessie’s hand phone number. After Vicky left,

Rave began texting Jessie.

Scene 2

Venue: School Compound

Rave and Jessie got closer and closer since then and their relationships were no

longer acquaintances. Until one day after a week, Rave had guts to call Jessie out for

a lunch date, saying that he just came back from Paris and would like to talk more

about Paris. Jessie love Paris and Eiffel Tower very much and therefore agree to go

to the lunch date with Rave.

Scene 3

Venue: Taylor’s Old Town White Coffee

The next day, Rave arrived early at the restaurant. He was so nervous while waiting

for Jessie. He was afraid that he might do something silly or clumsy, embarrassing

himself. After a while, Jessie arrived. Rave stood up and introduced himself. And

Jessie introduced herself too in a polite manner. Both of them had good first

impressions towards each other. They then chit chat a little about France and Rave

took out an Eiffel Tower keychain he bought from Paris and gave it to Jessie. Jessie



was very happy and formed good impression towards Rave. After a while, Rave pulled

out the menu and let Jessie to choose her food first. Rave called for the waiter,

Jacquelyn to order food and drinks. While waiting for the food, Rave felt so awkward

and panic. The waitress, Jacquelyn served their food. When the waiter was serving

the hot white Coffee, Rave accidentally spilt a little of coffee at the side of the cup.

Rave immediately apologized and said that the coffee was too full. Jessie thought in

mind that Rave was being too panic and clumsy. She smiled a little. Then, Jessie

began eating the soft-boiled egg she ordered. First she mixed the eggs in a ‘rude’

manner. Then she ate ‘rudely’, scoop by scoop and then held the bowl up and began

swallowing it. Rave stared at Jessie in surprise at first, but then he still think that Jessie

is a very open but not a shy person, showing her true self. He actually likes girls who

are not shy. After they finished eating, Rave asked if Jessie wants to be his girlfriend,

Jessie accepted it as she thought that Rave was very gentlemen and felt comfortable

to be with him. She also thought that Rave is pretty much like her father: both manners

and behaviours and accepted to be his girlfriend.



CONCEPTS

There are 12 concepts used in the video clip, they are Classical Conditioning:

The Name-Letter Effect, Fritz Heider: Balance Theory, Self-fulfilling Prophecy, First

Impression, Primacy Effect, Actor-observer Bias, Self-serving Bias, Dispositional

Attribution, Situational Attribution, The Halo Effect, Reciprocity and Sigmund Freud

and the parental Image Theory - Electra Complex.

Classical Conditioning: The Name-Letter Effect is the tendency to show

preference for the letters in our own name and stimuli that contain those letters. People

prefer letters in their own name, especially their first and last initials over other letters.

As people write their names thousands of times over a life time, so it’s unsurprisingly

that people would prefer letters in them over other letters. In this case, Rave full name

is Rave Jackson. When he heard that the girl’s name Vicky introduced to him was

Jessie with an Initial J, in this case same as Rave’s last initial. He eventually prefer

and like it.

Fritz Heider: Balance Theory shows that people desire ‘cognitive consistency’.

It conceptualizes the cognitive consistency motive as a drive toward psychological

balance. People feel comfortable with others who share their attitudes. Heider

proposed that "sentiment" or liking relationships are balanced if the affect valence in a

system multiplies out to a positive result. For instance, Rave had a crush on Jessie

and when Rave get to know that Jessie likes Paris and Eifel tower very much, he

eventually formed a positive attribution and liking towards Paris and Eifel Tower

because he likes Jessie. This has shown a balance state of the theory.

Self-fulfilling Prophecy is causing beliefs about ourselves to become true by

behaving in a manner consistent with those beliefs. It causes our own expectations to

come true by acting in ways that licit expected behaviours from others. For instance,

before the date, Rave worried that he would have acted clumsy or silly when he get to

panic, embarrassing himself in front of the girl, Jessie. During the lunch date, Rave

was too panic that he really did something clumsy. When the waiter served a cup of



hot coffee, he spilled the coffee a bit at the side and Jessie smiled a little in which

Rave thought that he really did embarrassed himself and his fear came true.

First Impression are impressions made instantaneously toward a person whom

you have just met. In the story, this theory is shown when Rave and Jessie first met.

Rave stood up and introduced himself in a very polite manner and Jessie did that too

right after Rave. So, both of them have developed their first impression towards each

other when they first came into contact. As Rave and Jessie both acted politely, so

they had developed a very good first impression towards each other.

Primacy Effect is the first piece of information we receive will have the most

impact on our own impression. For example, Rave have developed a very good first

impression towards Jessie. This concept will later work with ‘The Halo Effect’ when

the story continue to develop.

Actor-observer Bias happens when a person is making dispositional

attributions for others behaviours but situational attributions for our own. In this case,

Jessie had made a dispositional attribution for Rave for being so panic and clumsy.

Although this is a cognitive process without being verbally expressed, but Jessie is

still making dispositional attribution for Rave.

Self-serving Bias is the tendency to attribute negative effects or unsuccessful

behaviours to situational factors. The self-serving bias is our body self-defence

mechanism. Lots of people are doing this without conscious. For Rave, he spilt the

coffee and immediately says that the coffee was too full. This statement indicates

that Rave is attributing negative effects happening to him to situational factor.

Dispositional Attribution is where we assume that the cause of an action is

due to a person’s internal characteristics.

Situational Attribution is where we assume the cause of an action is due to

external or environmental factors.

The Halo Effect explains that one positive attribute will cause us to attribute

other positive qualities to an individual. This concept work comes after the ‘primacy

effect’. Rave have developed a very good first impression towards Jessie, through

this concept, Rave will attribute another positive qualities to Jessie. Although Jessie



ate the half-boiled egg rudely, Rave did not attributes negative qualities towards

Jessie. However, he likes the way Jessie showing her true self without hiding and

accepts it.

Reciprocity happens when we find someone like us, we tend to like them back

and leads to higher level of trust. This happens when Rave likes Jessie, and Jessie

does not reject to be friend with him first. Slowly, Jessie likes Rave also.

According to the Electra Complex, the father becomes the first love for the

female child. These feelings are eventually suppressed. Eventually, the female

adolescent seek a mate with the qualities of her father. At the last part of the story

when Rave asks whether Jessie would be his girlfriend, Jessie thinks for a while and

what had popped up in her mind was Rave is like her father, he shares the common

personalities with Jessie’s father and made that Jessie like him more and choose to

be his girlfriend.



CONCLUSION

Through this project, all of us have a better understanding of Social

Psychology concepts and know how to apply into real life. This would be the main

benefits we gained from the assignment. Then, we have also learnt more about

video shooting skills, and also acting skills. As all of us are not a good or

experienced actor or actress, in front of camera, it is hard for us to act naturally.

Often we felt nervous and awkward in front of camera. However, we tried our best to

overcome these difficulties and managed to finish our video.

In conclusion, this is a very nice experience for all of us as there is not much

assignments where we need to act. Besides gaining more knowledge and

understanding of Social Psychology, we were also indulged in the fun of video

shooting.

Education

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY VIDEO REPORT