Journal 5.
TAYLOR’S UNIVERSITY | SABD | FNBE | SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
DATE: 9 February 2015
TIME: 4:00PM
CONCEPT: CORFing
During my first semester of my foundation studies, I met a person who impressed me so hard for his
attitude. He is one of the group members which I had for the first assignment for three modules. During that
time, he always came late for meeting, went back earlier or even absent for the meeting. He is irresponsible
for the works given to him. On the presentation day, he didn't show up for the group work and he told us that
he had to go back to his hometown for a certain reason. For the another assignment, he always came late or
go back earlier and affected our practise progress because everyone is related to each other in the group for
that particular assignment. On the day of presentation, he showed up in the last minutes when everyone in
the group is so nervous about the presentation and he even didn’t answer the call from us. Besides that, that
person is also a late comer for the classes everyday. Due to his irresponsible and his attitude, my other
group members and I are very aware about this person. We tried not to be the same group with that person
so that he won't affect our progress and the result of the assignments. When comes to group work, my
friends and I formed our group as fast as possible and to the maximum number of group members so that
that person will not be assigned to our group as the group is full. We even had the same person as our group
members for most of the assignments to avoid that person getting involve with us.
Cutting Off Reflective Failure(CORFing) concept said that we avoid ourself involving with the person who
had failed or behaved badly in certain situation. In this situation, I had to avoid to be the same group with that
person so that he won't affect my progress of my assignments. That person had been listed into the blocking
list of members who i don't want to be as a group member.
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