1. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN
THE DESIGN SCHOOL
FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT
Journal Assignment 1
Yap Wei Tyng
0314058
PSYC 103

2. Entry 1
In this assignment, we are required to write journal about lesson and things we learn in
psychology class. The aim of writing this journal is to make sure that we can apply these concept
and lesson into our daily life, but not learn for nothing.
“Self-concept- Who am I” is the lesson I learn from class today. Who am I? This was a
tricky question for me since I was standard 3 because I started to feel curious about who am I,
what kind of human being am I? Am I kind as an angel or evil as a devil? How my friends think
about me? After attending this lesson, I realized and learn a lot about myself. I know more about
myself after this class. In class, Miss Pang ordered us to get into group and describe about
ourselves and our overall similar personality. It was fun and I heard a lot of different answers and
some are ridiculous. But I also heard about my friends’ opinion about me. Some was good and
some was bad as not one is perfect.
Positive thinking is the most useful and nice thing I learn from this lesson because I was a
people who always think negatively as I scare in failing. Through this lesson, I realized that
instead of scare to fail something, I rather hoping for success. This is one kind of positive
thinking and I don’t felt as stress as before. I also learn about Holden’s formula. Although I think
that this is the most ridiculous way to be positive thinking but it sure is a effective way to be.
In conclusion, I learn how to apply this concept and formula into my daily life. I also
learn to aware about my bad attitude that been listed out by my friend so that I can improve
myself.

3. Entry 2
In this assignment, we are required to write journal about lesson and things we learn in
psychology class. The aim of writing this journal is to make sure that we can apply these concept
and lesson into our daily life, but not learn for nothing.
Vision, is the main topic of the lesson for our psychology class today. Firstly, Miss Pang
introduced our human’s eye. Honestly, it wasn’t interesting so Miss Pang also just briefly explain
about it. The most interesting part for today’s lesson was the psychology of colors. According to
my knowledge, I do not realize that there was psychology for colors. In my opinion, colors are
just colors, nothing much about it. Today, I learn a lot about colors and I finally knew that why
restaurant and most of the advertisements’ main color was red in color. It was because red attract
the most attention s and it believed that it increase arousal and brain activity.
Next is the visual system of our eye sight. We are able to look two things in one picture.
Miss Pang showed us a lot of pictures that related to this topic. However, we are also unable to
see something that was big and obvious. The example experiment video was the invisible gorilla.
Through this experiment, it proof that when we are concentrating on something, we will not
realized anything around us although it was a huge gorilla.
In conclusion, I learn how to apply suitable colors to certain locations or objects. As
being an architect student, we should know more about how colors are instead of what colors are.
It is because colors may affect our emotions and feelings.

4. Entry 3
In this assignment, we are required to write journal about lesson and things we learn in
psychology class. The aim of writing this journal is to make sure that we can apply these concept
and lesson into our daily life, but not learn for nothing.
Attitude is the main topic of the lesson for today’s psychology class. Through this class, I
learn that attitudes are positive and negative evaluations of objects in thought. Besides that, I also
realized that there are theories of attitude changing as they call learning. There are three ways for
them to learn. Evaluative conditioning, operant conditioning and observational learning are the
three main ways that I learn from class today.
The most interesting part of learning was the operant conditioning. Operant conditioning
is a form of learning in which responses come to be controlled by their consequences. Through
my understanding, it was kind of learning that using the way of rewarding or punishment. I
would prefer the rewarding way because it provide benefit to the others to achieve something we
wanted them to do and motivate them. In my opinion, punishment is the worst way in this part of
way to learn because it hurts someone psychically or mentally. Although it do have the effect of
motivating them, but it also produced negative thinking and negative action to the people who
got punished.
In conclusion, I prefer the rewarding way to learn or teach someone or animals. It is
because I think that was the most ethnic and best way for someone to learn something healthy
and happily.