Freshman Sketch Report Analyzes Social Psychology Concepts
1. School of Architecture and building and Design
Foundation in Natural and Built Environment
Sketch Report : Freshman in campus
Group Members : Tung Siew Hui 0323823
Jiji Ng 0904Y72861
Chin Cheong Soon 0323529
Jason Goh Kok Wei 0323392
Session : Monday 3.30pm-5.30pm
Lecturer : Mr T. Shankar
2. Content Page
1. Acknowledgement
2. Introduction
3. Method
a. Materials
4. Discussion
a. Concepts and Definition of Sketch
b. Storyboard
c. Applicationand Analysis
d. Conclusion
5. References
Acknowledgement
3. I would like to take this opportunity on behalf of my group, to express our
appreciation to every group member, Jiji, Chin Cheong Soon, Jason Goh Kok Wei
for their teamwork and efforts to complete this assignment in time and fulfilling the
tasks that is passed to them thoroughly.
Chin Cheong Soon is the director of the sketch as well as the videographer. On
the other hand, Jason Goh was the editor for the video and giving ideas on how we
should shoot our sketch. Jiji was in charge of the presentation slides. I am in charge
of writing the report and providing a few concepts for this assignment.
Lastly, we would like to thank our psychology lecturer Mr. T Shankar for helping us
and guide us throughout this assignment. Throughout this assignment, we manage
to have better understanding for the concepts we used.
Introduction
4. For this assignment, we have to produce a video clip incorporating social psychology
concepts. Then, we have to produce a report of the sketch with precise information of the
script and presentation slides for the video we took in class.
The sketch that was taken must be based around the concepts learned in lectures in class
given by our lecturer, Mr. T Shankar. This assignment helps students to recognise and
identify the connections among concepts and perspectives within social psychology with
other disciplines.
Method
5. Throughout the shooting process we used Soon’s camera to record the whole
video. The settings of the video is Taylor’s University entrance, walkway in front of
Student Life Central and inside Student Life Central. We prepared temporary tattoos
and papers for the props. Wehad a discussionabout which concepts we can
incorporate, roles and job division before we start shooting.
For the role delegation, Jason Goh is the character Bill which is the freshman in
campus. Then, Soonwill be playing the role Cena ,who looks like a bad student but
he is kind hearted. Jiji will be playing the role as Ms Gigi, the lecturer. For me, Siew
Hui playing the role as Mary, I am the oppositeof Cena the student the innocent
student with a bad heart.
We did not write any script because it is hard for us to memorise and it takes up
time. However, we did discuss on how we want our scenes to be like and we decided
to talk casually throughout our scenes.
Discussion
Jiji first came up with a storyline based on family orientation. However, after our
6. group discussion we decided to use the storyline based on college life as a freshman
because it is more convenient for us to meet up and start shooting.
Forour sketch title “Freshman in Campus” is based on how social psychologyis
able to incorporate in our daily life in campus. Which will be shown in the characters
we played, Cena, Mary and Ms Gigi.
Here are the concepts and definition which we used in our video shooting
Stereotyping against how one’s look
7. A stereotype is “...afixed, over generalized belief about a particular group or class
of people.” (Cardwell, 1996).
Bill inflicted discrimination as redirecting his negative behaviours between Mary
and Cena who have different expressed personality and characteristics in his
manifestation of membership upon his grouping preference. He persisted articulated
understanding of stereotyped groups as such in: (1) affiliation with subcultural
members in significance of social appeal and high performance members based on
his meritocratic beliefs, and (2) shared identity of decency in the university’s social
construct.
Cognitive Bias, Halo Effect in New Relationship
The halo effect is a type of cognitive bias in which our overall impression of a
personinfluences how we feel and think about his or her character.
According to Asch’s (1946) social psychological ideologies in his classical
experiments, Bill has more positive ascription about Mary because he involved
passive awareness in engagement of rational identification about Mary’s disposition.
Consequently, Bill spent briefer intervention of assorted thinking on his positive
statement about Mary. As Bill has complication and incompetence in his first-hand
approachof university’s life, he deliberately made hasty generalisation on his first
impression about Mary’s approachability. Bill might afflicted with anxiety, timidity
and uncertainty about the unexpected environment in university. Furthermore, Bill
might inferred with the need of affinity to reduce the indistinctiveness between
himself and high performance student.
Optimism Bias and Counterfactual Thinking on Academic Result
While we often like to think of ourselves as highly rational and logical, researchers
8. have found that the human brain is sometimes too optimistic for its own good. If you
were asked to estimate how likely you are to experience divorce, illness, job loss, or
an accident, you are likely to underestimate the probability that suchevents will ever
impact your life. This is becauseyour brain has a built in optimism bias.
Bill has strong applicability of his academic success on his university’s recognition
and identity. This is assumed as he always feel overshadowed by other’s credibility
of
academic success and endured sensitive disapproval with an agitation of self-esteem.
This upward social comparisons pressured him to be empathetic and encouraging
himself by making chronological comparisons between his past and present
performance. Apparently, these defensive and overestimated barrier made by Bill is
inclined to exaggeration of actuality. On the other hand, Bill motivated himself by
using downward counterfactuals as his educator’s criticism influenced him to
generalise a more realistic interpretation of his academic performance, by
pressurising him to predetermine his academic results with credit of examination. Bill
afflicted with abstemious behaviour, which he still oversee himself with self-
protective cognitive inferences.
Self-fulfilling Prophecy on Academic Performance
A self-fulfilling prophecy is a belief that comes true becausewe are acting as if it is
already true.
Miss Gigi is initial impressed by the declination of academic performance of Bill
and dedicated to scrutinize his following rectification. However, Miss Giji’s
demoralisation about Bill’s academic advancement stereotyped him as unproductive
groups and erroneously impressed about actualisation of his academic competencies.
Her prediction and deterrence in the educational interaction generated self-fulfilling
prophecyin Bill which he inaccurately adjusted his sensitivity, conception and
assessment about individual self-esteem, enthusiasm and effectiveness in subsequent
9. accomplishment.
Social Loafing in Group Assignment
Social loafing describes the tendency of individuals to put forth less effort when they
are part of a group. Because all members of the group are pooling their effort to
achieve a common goal, each member of the group contributes less than they would
if they were individually responsible.
Mary’s output fall off in the completing progression of group assignment due to her
inconsistency in mutual discussion and task-orienting participation. Her insufficient
academic application is comparably ineffectual even though she intervened members’
discussions cooperatively in the preliminary stage of participation. She is susceptible
to subtractive belief of insignificant outcomes upon responsive group involvement
and is less faithful to the group. She perceived with a group norms of poorcapacity
upon their completion on group assignment due to her excellent academic
performance, thereby exhibiting higher propensity of social loafing.
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