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SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & DESIGN
Foundation in Natural Built and Environment (FNBE)
Name : Chan Tian Ji
Student ID No. : 0320831
Group/ Session : Monday 2pm- 4pm
Subject : Social Pyschology
Intake : August 2014
Lecturer/ Tutor : Mr. Shankar Thirucelvam

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Journal 1
Stereotype
When I was still young, I always had a thinking which developed a stereotype that
every rich people have good manner and attitude. Maybe I was influenced by the drama
or movie that I watched since young. First impression of mine about a rich man or
woman was a kind-hearted and willing to help others. But until when I was at the age of
thirteen, something happened and proved me that what I though was totally wrong. When
I was in my primary school time, I have a bunch of good friends. We always meet up with
each others even not weekdays. After we moved on to secondary school, the chances to
met each other became lesser and lesser. Then, one of us set up a gathering for all of us to
meet up again. So, we decided to have our lunch at the nearest shopping mall to our
house, which the AEON Mall, Bukit Tinggi. As we were having our lunch, we heard that
a man was talking loudly to the waiter in the restaurant. I was curious until I found out
that just because the man who was scolding the waiter wanted to get a twenty percent
discount as he is one of the share holder of that restaurant. However, he didnt show up
her VIP member card so the waiter dont have the right to give him discount. Then the
man getting more frustrated, and took out few bundle of bank notes from her working
bag. His following action make me shocked and can not easily to be forgottten. He started
to tear all those bank notes into half; then into another half; until those notes become
small pieces. Then he threw all those pieces of bank notes on the waiter face and body
and insulted him. His action had totally made me felt disgusted even he was a rich man,
but what is his right to do? He did not even give respect to the waiter although the waiter
is doing his own duty to make sure that he did not obey the rules.After this experience,
my thought of has totally changed about rich people. No doubt to say that some rich
familied get well education and well manner. But, there are also some rich people which
only think that they have money which can do whatever they wanted to do. After this
case, I choose not to stereotype them. Instead, rich people could have good attitudes and

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personalities; thus, they could also have bad attitudes and bad personalities too.
Journal 2
Comfirmation Bias
Time management is always the most important thing in our entire life. When I was
in primary school, I always have my time that enough to done everythings such as
homework, sport activities, sleep and entertainment. But things are never become the
same when I moved on to secondary life. Times was always not enough for me to finish
all my homeworks. I became to playful and put all my energy and effort on computer
game. And also because I was too focus in this games, I even cash in so much cash into
this game. I had spend more then ten thousands ringgit in this game which did not bring
any benefit to me. Then, my mother and sister came to advise not to waste money and
energy on games. But, I do not even listen and remember any single word came out from
their mouths. As I get my pocket money and my tuition fees for every month, I will use
all the money to cash in to the game. I even skipped all my tuitions and spent all the
money on my game. After my mother found out that I skiped all my tuitions and scolded
me so badly. She was so dissapointed on me but she do advise me to quit that because
that game made my academic result became very bad. But, I still did not know and
realised what I did was so wrong and i chose to ignore what she had advised me. Until the
day that the game that I played and put so much effort and money into it was closed due
to the company was bankrupt. That day, m feeling was so complicated. After I used one
day to think everything that I did before, i realize that I had did so many wrong things
even because of the game and money I had quarrel with my mother so many times. But,
my mother chose to forgive me. I felt so sorry to them after this case. However, I found
out that confirmation bias was exist on me. Playing computer games is not a bad thing but
we have to set a limit on ourselves. Thus, we have to listen to advises from out family
too, because they are the one who help you no matter what they sacrificed.

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Journal 3
False Consensus
2013, my last year in my secondary life, something that happened that made me get
frustrated at the most. Never to be forgetten, it was 7th
of July. That day, while we are
waiting for our teacher to enter our class, one gang of student passed by our classroom,
and they accidentally broke our classroom windows. Then, all of them ran away. I was
shocked because i just sit beside of the windows. One of our class members quickly go
and inform our class teacher that are supposed to be entering our class at that time. Then,
as that teacher reached, he saw there was so many broken windows. Without thinking, he
asked me to follow him to he discipline room just because there is one basketball
underneath my table and they though that i brokw the windows with the ball. I knew I am
not supposed to bring basketball to school. But, the teacher and discipline counselor did
not do any investigation on what had happen actually, they blame everthing on me. And
they did not wan to listen for my explaination. Everything come out of my mouth was
consider as excusses for them just because I have few bad records in school. Then, they
took away my basketball and asked me to paid for the money to repair the windows. It
was not my fault and I declined to do that. So, I started to argue with the counselor. After
that arguement, I was actually expelled from school on being disrespectful to the school
counselor and rude to him. Even, my classmate when to explain that was not my fault, the
counselor considered that they was trying to hide the truth and helping me. But, at last I
was being suspended for one month from going to school. The false consensus was
occured on the teacher and counselor. They think that everyone have those bad records
only make mistakes when it is not the true. Everyone does mistake too, and the same
things happened to the teacher and the counselor too that they estimate the commoness of
one’s attitude.

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Journal 4
Spotlight Effect
I used to be basketball player until I stopped two years ago. Everyday, I would take
like one to two hours go to the nearest basketball court for my training. I still remembered
so clearly, when I just started to join basketball this activities, I dont know anything about
playing basketball. I just know that the basketball can bounce and throw. Few of my
friends teaches me the basic techniques. Times flies, as I had played for almost one year, I
feel that I was not that bad at the beginning. As I mentioned, I will take two hours to play
basketball everyday. My friends and I which five of us set up a team by ourselves. As
everytime we went to play there, we met our opponents which also our senior in our
secondary school. We did not like one of the members in their team, named Daniel. He
like to show off how much skills and technique he got. When there is some hot girls
passed by or sat there to watch us playing, he would like showing all his skill and
technique to show that he is professional. But, the point is he always fail. Then, he was
embarassed. Soon, he became angry and started to play in a rough method. Daniel’s
action shows that he had the spotlight effect for people to put attention on him. However,
he had made a lot of people feel irritating and dislike about him.

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Journal 5
Assessing Attitudes
As I live for almost19 years, a lot of things that happened around me. Although I still
don’t know anything when I was still young. When I grew up, my mother told me about
some stories that happened among our families, relatives and also her and my father’s
friends. My father, he was a chinese that does not know about any single letter of chinese
writting but he do speak chinese. Since young, my father seldom talk to my siblings and
I. I was realy curious about this thing. Sometimes, he dont even talk to us for a whole day
; sometimes just one short conversation a day. He never asked anything about us, no
matter my academic result, who we mixed up with, everything that happened to us. On
the year 2013, I was actually got expelled from school because of an incidents happened
that happened. The school’s discipline conselor blame everything on me and arguement
started between the counselor and I. That day, which is 7th
of July of July, the school
conselor send a letter to my parents that I was expelled from school. That was the first
time my father asked thing about me. I was nervous that he would scold me or lecture me
because even I fought in school and get so many warning letters he don’t even care and
let my mother to handle me. After I tell him the truth, he knew that I did not break the
windows. Then, I asked my friends to explain what happened actually to my father. The
next day, my father went to school and have a discussion with the school principle. Then,
the counselor came up to me and apologized to me as the principle had caught those
people who break the windows. But, I got my fault too for being inpolite the the
counselor. So, the school principle made the changes and let me continue to study after
one month. In this incident, my father was clearly show the his assessing attitudes. He is
not a father that dont care of families because of he did not ask anything about us.
Because he knew everything of us as my mother told him and he cared about everything
of this family. After this incidents, I feel that he was a good father to me and we started
more conversations.

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