Social Psychology (PSY30203)

Report

School of Architecture, Building and Design

Foundation in Natural and Built Environment

Session: Monday, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Submission Date: 8th June 2015

Group members:

Terence Tan Peng Ong (0320275)Sim Chia Ting (0320932)Boon Yi Chung (0318300)Chow Kah Yien (0320300)Nur Azreen Binti Samiu (0321370)

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Content

Title Page

Acknowledgement 3

Introduction 4

Method a) Apparatus b) Procedure

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Discussion - Concept & Definition - Application & Analysis - Conclusion

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References

Appendix

Acknowledgement

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First and foremost, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to our Social

Psychology lecturer, Mr. Shankar Thiruchelvam for his advice and guidance throughout

the semester. Without him, we will not be able to complete this assignment successfully.

Next, many thanks to Terence Tan Peng Ong for being a responsible team leader by

dividing the work equally among us. Not to be forgotten, to the remaining members in

the group - Chow Kah Yien, Sim Chia Ting, Boon Yi Chung and Nur Azreen for their full

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

Also, we would like to thank our friend, Daniel Tan for lending us his camera for us to

shoot our video.

Last but not least, we would like to thank everyone that gave us endless moral supports

and those who involved either directly or indirectly in doing and completing this

assignment.

Introduction

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In a group of five, this project requires us to do a 3-5 minutes video and applies 5

different social psychology concepts that we have learnt throughout the semester. We

also need to do a report based on the short video and present the video during class.

This group consists of five members, Terence Tan Peng Ong as the leader followed by

Sim Chia Ting, Boon Yi Chung, Chow Kah Yien and Nur Azreen. After having few

meetings, we decided to create a short video in a story form titled “The Black Hole“. The

story is about a boy who doesn’t cooperate and work along very well with his group

members. The 5 concepts that we apply in the video are dispositional attribution,

unrealistic optimism, extrinsic motivation, discrimination, and aggression.

Method

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Apparatus / materials

● Camera

○ Canon EOS 550D

○ Canon EOS 1100D

○ Canon ef -s 35-55mm,

● Tripod stand

● A4 paper

● Stationery ( Artline pen , ball pens )

● Computer software

○ Windows Movie Maker

○ Camtasia Studio 8

○ Windows Player

● Soundtrack

○ Super Mario Bros Official Theme Song

○ Dr Dre feat Snoop Doggy Dogg Nuthin But a 'G' Thang Uncut & Dirty

Procedure

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First of all, after our 8 a.m. Social Psychology class, we had our first discussion on

week 14 which was on Monday evening, 5 p.m. but at that time, our main discussion

was all about the comic. After we were done with our comic’s discussion, we started to

discuss about our video clip. First, we started to think of the 5 concepts of the video and

since this was the first meeting, we roughly discussed about it and we came out with 8

concepts which are altruistic model, confirmation bias, self-esteem, introspection,

dispositional attributions, extrinsic motivation, discrimination and aggression. After we

thought of these 8 concepts, our leader, Terence Tan Peng Ong wanted all of us to go

back home and think about the story line that related to 5 out of the 8 concepts that we

had selected during our discussion.

At week 15, we started to discuss about our video story line after we had done

with our comic’s presentation slide and comic drawings. All of us came out with different

ideas of the story line, but in the end of our discussion, all of us had decided to use

Terence Tan Peng Ong’s story line. The reason why we chose his story was because

his story was talking about the problem of group work which was faced in almost every

group. After all of us had decided the story line, our leader wanted us to go back and

think about the story and enhance or make the story line much more better. Before

going back, we discussed which characters we wanted to play for the short video. We

decided to choose Nur Azreen as our lecturer, while Sim Chia Ting, Boon Yi Chung

and Chow Kah Yien as the students. While for our leader, Terence Tan, he selected

himself as the arrogant student. We also finalised our 5 concepts which are

dispositional attribution, unrealistic optimism, extrinsic motivation, discrimination and

aggression.

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After we had done our comic presentation, which was at week 16, we did a very

short meeting to discuss about when we were going to start the video shooting and

think of the location of the video shooting. Then, all of us agreed to meet on Wednesday

morning and for our location, we chose E6.13 which is X-space and E4.10 which is a

normal classroom. On Wednesday, we followed our plan accordingly. At 10 a.m. sharp,

all of us wore normal T-shirt, and started shooting the video. We thought that we would

take around 6 hours to finish the video shooting but luckily we only took 3 hours, from

10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Later on, the video was edited by Sim Chia Ting. He used Windows Movie

Maker, Camtasia Studio 8 and Windows Player to edit the video. He took 6 hours

editing the video since this is his first time editing a video. After the video was done and

uploaded on Youtube, we divided the report and slide into several parts for each of us to

do so that we could finish our assignment as fast as possible before the submission due

date.

Discussion

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a. Concept and Definition

In our video, the concept that we portray are taken from our psychology lessons. We

incorporated 5 concepts and the main concepts that involved in our video are

dispositional attribution, unrealistic optimism, extrinsic motivation, discrimination and

aggression.

The storyline of our video is more likely related to our daily life experience in our

university life when we are in a group work assignment or project. As you can see from

the video, Terence is an arrogant student. He thought that he was very smart and clever

than others. He did not want to teach Sim Chia Ting about the assignment when he

came and asked him about the assignment.

During the next meeting, Boon as the leader of the group wanted to check the progress

of each member but Terence did not show his progress to Boon because he thought

that he could handle all the things by himself. So, all the group members except

Terence put extra effort to do the assignment and they managed to do very well on the

day of the presentation.

The five concepts have already been portrayed and explained in the context of our

video as well as written analysis and presented through slides for further understanding.

Application and analysis

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Our video is a simple story and it contains five social psychology concepts in it. The

pictures below show how the social psychology concepts are applied in the scenes and

the explanation of the scenes.

1.Dispositional Attribution

Scene Description : Boon, the leader of the group wanted to check the progress of the

group members. All the members showed their progresses except Terence. He did not

want to show his progress to Boon because he thought that he could handle the things

by himself.

Explanation : Dispositional attribution means that a cause of an action is due to a

person’s internal characteristics. When we make dispositional attribution, we usually

infer that an event is due to a person’s internal factor. Internal attribution is defined as

the act of blaming on some type of factors that could be controlled by an individual for

an event to happen. For example, Damson did well in a singing competition, everyone

gave good comments but the judge didn’t let him passed the audition. Therefore, we

can infer that the event is due to the judge’s internal characteristic.

Application : This concept can be applied in this scene. The group was having a final

discussion for the presentation. Everyone supposed to show their progress to the

leader. However, Terence didn’t show his progress to Boon. This shows low consensus.

In addition, he always acted like a professional and looked down on his team. This

shows low distinctiveness. Terence is selfish and he refused to help his friend, Chia

Ting before. This also shows high consistency. These factors show us that, this event is

due to Terence’s internal factor.

2. Unrealistic Optimism

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Scene Description : Terence did not want to show his progress to Boon because he

thought he could handle it by himself.

Explanation : Unrealistic optimism explains that an individual thinks that he is better

than others. For example, Damson thinks that he is better than other participants in

badminton competition. He skips all his training because he overconfident.

Application : Terence thought that he was the best in the group so he wanted to

become the leader at first and didn’t cooperate with the rest of the group members for

their presentation.

3. Extrinsic Motivation

Scene Description : Boon and his group members wanted to achieve good result for

their assignment so they put extra effort in doing the assignment.

Explanation: Taking a certain action in response to external pressure or obligation. It

might be done to avoid punishment or earn a specific reward. For example,you want to

get 4.0 CGPA to avoid punishment by parents or you want to get a good result so that

you can get scholarship from the school.

Application : In the video, this concept was applied in the scene where Chia Ting

worked hard to find the formula for “black” while Chow was working hard to look for the

formula for “hole”. After that, Boon found out the final answer for the “Black Hole”

theory. Then all the group members were well prepared during the presentation and

managed to get a good result for their assignment.

4. Discrimination

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Scene Description : Terence started to get ignored by his team. He wanted to

celebrate with his team but the group members did not want to be friend with him.

Explanation : A negative behaviour to a person in a group. It usually happens in a

group. A group of members started to ignore a person. For example, John is the only

chinese in a NBA team. His teammates bully him all the time because of his race.

Application : Terence was being selfish and ego so the group members were not

happy with him. After Terence refused to show his progress, his group members started

to boycott him. At last, his teammates refused to celebrate with him.

5. Aggression

Scene Description : Boon, Chia Ting and Kah Yien refused to shake hands with

Terence after their presentation.

Explanation : Aggression is behavior that intends to harm another individual. It can be

either verbal or physical actions. It also can be either direct aggression or indirect

aggression. Direct aggression means that the messages clearly derived from aggressor

while indirect aggression means that the messages do not clearly derived from

aggressor.

Application : When Boon, Chia Ting and Kah Yien refused to shake hands with

Terence, this shows indirect physical aggression.

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References

1)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEctMbkDHV0

2)http://giftedkids.about.com/od/glossary/g/extrinsic.htm

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Appendix

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