Journal Assignment ONE.pdf
- 1. SCHOOL OFARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN THE DESIGN SCHOOL FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT Name : Wong Qin Kai Student ID : 0320024 Group / Session : Monday (4-6 pm) Subject & Course : Social Psychology Submission Date : 27th April 2015
- 2. Journal 1 , Chapter 2 : Extrinsic Motivation 22th April 2015, 7:03pm Extrinsic motivation means when someone is motivated by certain action in response to the external pressure or responsibility. However, it could be used to avoid the punishment or used to earn tangible reward but it often happens to me when I was ten years old. I’m the one who extremely dislike hiking in my family because it’s definitely a hard physical exercise for me so I always make excuses for myself when I was called to go with my father every weekend. Meanwhile, I have my own hobby which was cycling. I like to cycle more than hike. I would rather go starve just because to save money to buy new accessories for my bicycle from my pocket money. So my father decided to use variety of methods to encourage me. Finally, he promised me that he would buy me two set of bicycle accessories if I go hiking with him. For the sake of my bicycle , I decided to go hiking with my father and took it as a slimming exercise even though at the end of the destination I sweated a lot and felt short of breath. Last not least , I was happy and touch because I get another two set of accessories from my dad without paying any money. I love this kind of motivation because it involved participation in activities for some specific rewards that external to the process of participation.
- 3. Journal 2 , Chapter 5 : Observational Learning 22th April 2015 , 10:30pm In the lecture of Social Psychology, the concept of observational learning attracted me the most.It’s because this concept often happens on me in my daily life. Observational Learning is replicating , retaining and watching others engage in behaviors and repeat those action from a model. I remembered that when I was in the secondary school , the person that I admired the most is my mom because she always covers all the household duties without any complains. Ever when I entered the secondary school , I was still depended a lot on my mom so that’s the reason why I never became involved in helping with the housework and another reason is that I always rushed for my assignment that need to hand in every week .One day after having supper, I saw my mom is folding the clothes tidily in the room and I was free in that time so I decided to learn from my mom. I observed all the procedure from her and folded myself. After several researches on it , I also can folded the clothes tidily. I felt thankful to my mom because of her, I learnt a new thing in my life and also can often help her with housework. In my opinion , I think that observational learning played an important role in our daily life so we can learn anything that through observational learning by observing other people’s behavior.
- 4. Journal 3 , Chapter 1 : Confirmation Bias 23th April 2015 5:50pm I had learnt the concept of confirmation bias in my first lesson of social psychology. It was an unforgettable lesson in my university life as I remembered that day I was late.When I walked into the lecture hall ,the lecturer who named Mr Shankar was looked at me ferociously and suddenly asked me to come down. I was afraid of being punished and don’t wanna make myself foolish in others eyes. But in the end he didn’t made any punishment on me, he just want me to sit in the first three role. Here is an example that I’ve experienced the concept of confirmation bias before. When I was young, my parent told me that the person who had tattoos on his body is a bad guy. But unfortunately, I had a lot of this kind of friends by my side so as a filial child, I decided to listen the advise of my parent. Since that day ,I stayed far far away from them and also eased the relationship between them as I don’t want to be influenced. One day by accident , I met one of them who named Nicholas in the street. I was shocked when I saw him because he’s helping a disabled old man to cross the road. After that , the old man also rewarded him with ten dollars but he rejected and said that helping others is the origin of happiness. I felt sorry to him because I always biased against him and also mistaken about him. Lastly, I can clearly understand what confirmation bias mean. It means the tendency to interpret and search for the information that support to our beliefs.
- 5. Journal 4 , Chapter 5 : Operant Conditioning 23th April 2015 , 8:55pm Operant Conditioning is used to weaken or strengthen a particular behavior through punishment and reinforcement. Here is a example that often happens to me in my daily life. When I was in secondary school , I am the person who easily get nervous in my studies. In that time, I was in bad relationship with my girl friend and also no one willingness to hear my complaints so I decided to smoke even though I knew it’s bad to our health. One day night, when my sister who named Mary was attended to her friend birthday party at the cafe that opposite our house and she inadvertently found me smoking alone at the corner. She was grieved and come to console me but I still ungrateful. Mary afraid that I will fall into the wrong path so she decided to tell all the story to my dad. My dad didn’t scolded me but he canned me instead and advised me not to smoke again. In my opinion, the punishment that given by my dad is a positive punishment because he wanted me to learn from the mistakes that I did and also wanted me to weaken this bad behavior.
- 6. Journal 5 , Chapter 1 : False Consensus Effect 25th April 2015 , 11:55pm False consensus effect refers to the assumption that other people share their opinions, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors. This concept also often happens in my daily life. In year 2012 is the only year that I get my driving license. I was happy enough because my dad bought me a new car as my birthday present.Since that day , I always go out for supper with my buddies. I remembered that I had a partner named Mildred who often go swimming with me everyday. However, we also helped each others when we get into trouble. One day after swimming, we decided to go out for dinner. Suddenly she felt stomachache and need to go away for a while but unfortunately the waitress came to me and asked me what to order .I had no choice but to save time , I decided to order one set of chicken chop for her which I think is the cheapest and best seller meal in the restaurant. But the unfortunate thing happened , she said that she was allergic to chicken since many years ago. In this case , I totally understood what this concept mean and false consensus effect was caused by me . Everyone have their own opinions and beliefs so we are no longer to help other people make their own decisions.