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Social Psychology (PSY30203)
Report
School of Architecture, Building and Design
Foundation in Natural and Built Environment
Session: Monday, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Submission Date: 8th June 2015
Group members:
Terence Tan Peng Ong (0320275)
Sim Chia Ting (0320932)
Boon Yi Chung (0318300)
Chow Kah Yien (0320300)
Nur Azreen Binti Samiu (0321370)
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Acknowledgement
First and foremost, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to our Social
Psychology lecturer, Mr. Shankar Thiruchelvam for his advice and guidance throughout
the semester. Without him, we will not be able to complete this assignment successfully.
Next, many thanks to Terence Tan Peng Ong for being a responsible team leader by
dividing the work equally among us. Not to be forgotten, to the remaining members in
the group - Chow Kah Yien, Sim Chia Ting, Boon Yi Chung and Nur Azreen for their full
cooperation, tolerance and most importantly to work as a team.
Also, we would like to thank our friend, Daniel Tan for lending us his camera for us to
shoot our video.
Last but not least, we would like to thank everyone that gave us endless moral supports
and those who involved either directly or indirectly in doing and completing this
assignment.
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Introduction
In a group of five, this project requires us to do a 3-5 minutes video and applies 5
different social psychology concepts that we have learnt throughout the semester. We
also need to do a report based on the short video and present the video during class.
This group consists of five members, Terence Tan Peng Ong as the leader followed by
Sim Chia Ting, Boon Yi Chung, Chow Kah Yien and Nur Azreen. After having few
meetings, we decided to create a short video in a story form titled “The Black Hole“. The
story is about a boy who doesn’t cooperate and work along very well with his group
members. The 5 concepts that we apply in the video are dispositional attribution,
unrealistic optimism, extrinsic motivation, discrimination, and aggression.
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Method
Apparatus / materials
● Camera
○ Canon EOS 550D
○ Canon EOS 1100D
○ Canon ef -s 35-55mm,
● Tripod stand
● A4 paper
● Stationery ( Artline pen , ball pens )
● Computer software
○ Windows Movie Maker
○ Camtasia Studio 8
○ Windows Player
● Soundtrack
○ Super Mario Bros Official Theme Song
○ Dr Dre feat Snoop Doggy Dogg Nuthin But a 'G' Thang Uncut & Dirty
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Procedure
First of all, after our 8 a.m. Social Psychology class, we had our first discussion
on week 14 which was on Monday evening, 5 p.m. but at that time, our main discussion
was all about the comic. After we were done with our comic’s discussion, we started to
discuss about our video clip. First, we started to think of the 5 concepts of the video and
since this was the first meeting, we roughly discussed about it and we came out with 8
concepts which are altruistic model, confirmation bias, self-esteem, introspection,
dispositional attributions, extrinsic motivation, discrimination and aggression. After we
thought of these 8 concepts, our leader, Terence Tan Peng Ong wanted all of us to go
back home and think about the story line that related to 5 out of the 8 concepts that we
had selected during our discussion.
At week 15, we started to discuss about our video story line after we had done
with our comic’s presentation slide and comic drawings. All of us came out with different
ideas of the story line, but in the end of our discussion, all of us had decided to use
Terence Tan Peng Ong’s story line. The reason why we chose his story was because
his story was talking about the problem of group work which was faced in almost every
group. After all of us had decided the story line, our leader wanted us to go back and
think about the story and enhance or make the story line much more better. Before
going back, we discussed which characters we wanted to play for the short video. We
decided to choose Nur Azreen as our lecturer, while Sim Chia Ting, Boon Yi Chung and
Chow Kah Yien as the students. While for our leader, Terence Tan, he selected himself
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as the arrogant student. We also finalised our 5 concepts which are dispositional
attribution, unrealistic optimism, extrinsic motivation, discrimination and aggression.
After we had done our comic presentation, which was at week 16, we did a very
short meeting to discuss about when we were going to start the video shooting and
think of the location of the video shooting. Then, all of us agreed to meet on Wednesday
morning and for our location, we chose E6.13 which is X-space and E4.10 which is a
normal classroom. On Wednesday, we followed our plan accordingly. At 10 a.m. sharp,
all of us wore normal T-shirt, and started shooting the video. We thought that we would
take around 6 hours to finish the video shooting but luckily we only took 3 hours, from
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Later on, the video was edited by Sim Chia Ting. He used Windows Movie
Maker, Camtasia Studio 8 and Windows Player to edit the video. He took 6 hours
editing the video since this is his first time editing a video. After the video was done and
uploaded on YouTube, we divided the report and slide into several parts for each of us
to do so that we could finish our assignment as fast as possible before the submission
due date.
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Discussion
a. Concept and Definition
In our video, the concept that we portray are taken from our psychology lessons. We
incorporated 5 concepts and the main concepts that involved in our video are
dispositional attribution, unrealistic optimism, extrinsic motivation, discrimination and
aggression.
The storyline of our video is more likely related to our daily life experience in our
university life when we are in a group work assignment or project. As you can see from
the video, Terence is an arrogant student. He thought that he was very smart and clever
than others. He did not want to teach Sim Chia Ting about the assignment when he
came and asked him about the assignment.
During the next meeting, Boon as the leader of the group wanted to check the progress
of each member but Terence did not show his progress to Boon because he thought
that he could handle all the things by himself. So, all the group members except
Terence put extra effort to do the assignment and they managed to do very well on the
day of the presentation.
The five concepts have already been portrayed and explained in the context of our
video as well as written analysis and presented through slides for further understanding.
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Application and analysis
Our video is a simple story and it contains five social psychology concepts in it. The
pictures below show how the social psychology concepts are applied in the scenes and
the explanation of the scenes.
1.Dispositional Attribution
Scene Description : Boon, the leader of the group wanted to check the progress of the
group members. All the members showed their progresses except Terence. He did not
want to show his progress to Boon because he thought that he could handle the things
by himself.
Explanation : Dispositional attribution means that a cause of an action is due to a
person’s internal characteristics. When we make dispositional attribution, we usually
infer that an event is due to a person’s internal factor. Internal attribution is defined as
the act of blaming on some type of factors that could be controlled by an individual for
an event to happen. For example, Damson did well in a singing competition, everyone
gave good comments but the judge didn’t let him passed the audition. Therefore, we
can infer that the event is due to the judge’s internal characteristic.
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Application : This concept can be applied in this scene. The group was having a final
discussion for the presentation. Everyone supposed to show their progress to the
leader. However, Terence didn’t show his progress to Boon. This shows low consensus.
In addition, he always acted like a professional and looked down on his team. This
shows low distinctiveness. Terence is selfish and he refused to help his friend, Chia
Ting before. This also shows high consistency. These factors show us that, this event is
due to Terence’s internal factor.
2. Unrealistic Optimism
Scene Description : Terence did not want to show his progress to Boon because he
thought he could handle it by himself.
Explanation : Unrealistic optimism explains that an individual thinks that he is better
than others. For example, Damson thinks that he is better than other participants in
badminton competition. He skips all his training because he overconfident.
Application : Terence thought that he was the best in the group so he wanted to
become the leader at first and didn’t cooperate with the rest of the group members for
their presentation.
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3. Extrinsic Motivation
Scene Description : Boon and his group members wanted to achieve good result for
their assignment so they put extra effort in doing the assignment.
Explanation: Taking a certain action in response to external pressure or obligation. It
might be done to avoid punishment or earn a specific reward. For example,you want to
get 4.0 CGPA to avoid punishment by parents or you want to get a good result so that
you can get scholarship from the school.
Application : In the video, this concept was applied in the scene where Chia Ting
worked hard to find the formula for “black” while Chow was working hard to look for the
formula for “hole”. After that, Boon found out the final answer for the “Black Hole”
theory. Then all the group members were well prepared during the presentation and
managed to get a good result for their assignment.
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4. Discrimination
Scene Description : Terence started to get ignored by his team. He wanted to
celebrate with his team but the group members did not want to be friend with him.
Explanation : A negative behavior to a person in a group. It usually happens in a
group. A group of members started to ignore a person. For example, John is the only
Chinese in a NBA team. His teammates bully him all the time because of his race.
Application : Terence was being selfish and ego so the group members were not
happy with him. After Terence refused to show his progress, his group members started
to boycott him. At last, his teammates refused to celebrate with him.
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5. Aggression
Scene Description : Boon, Chia Ting and Kah Yien refused to shake hands with
Terence after their presentation.
Explanation : Aggression is behavior that intends to harm another individual. It can be
either verbal or physical actions. It also can be either direct aggression or indirect
aggression. Direct aggression means that the messages clearly derived from aggressor
while indirect aggression means that the messages do not clearly derived from
aggressor.
Application : When Boon, Chia Ting and Kah Yien refused to shake hands with
Terence, this shows indirect physical aggression.
