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1. Group Members: Darren Loong Chi Yoong [0318029]
Janice Lee Juen Yung [0318695]
Nur Aqilah Syaza [0317731]
William Goh Ming Hann [0317949]
Submission Date: 8th December 2014

2. The Misunderstanding

3. Summary
 Michael thinks Gwen’s personality is very nice because
of her looks and her name.
 One evening, Adam (Michael’s best friend) saw Gwen
throwing rubbish away and a hand fall off.
 He assumed that she murdered someone.
 Gwen has been alone for 2 weeks and her best friend,
Yuna did not show up at all.
 Adam assumed that she murdered Yuna and told
Michael about it. Michael was pissed and unfriend him.
 Adam confronted Gwen after a lecture about her
murdering Yuna.
 However, Yuna appeared and finally the truth is out.

4. Concepts

5. Confirmation Bias
 Michael believes that Gwen has nice
personality.
 Confirmation bias is shown because Michael
does not believe that Gwen has murdered
someone because she is beautiful and it
contradicts the schema he made.
 Therefore, he ignores it.

7. Attribution Bias
 Attribution bias is explaining of behaviours
in terms of internal and dispositional factors.
 Michael thinks that Gwen is a good girl
because of her looks and her behaviour in
class.

9. Stonewalling
 Stonewalling is a refusal to communicate.
 Michael decided not to be friends with
Adam anymore.
 He thinks that Adam is talking nonsense.
 Michael could not stand with his words
anymore.

11. Situational Attribution
 Adam saw Gwen throwing a rubbish bag and a
hand dropped out.
 He assumed Gwen has killed someone and most
likely is her best friend, Yuna because Gwen
has been alone for 2 weeks already.
 Therefore, he went to confront Gwen because
Yuna went missing for 2 weeks.
 Situational attribution refers to understanding a
behaviour as being caused by the situation that
the individual is in.

13. Persuasion
 Adam persuades Michael to believe in what
he says.
 Adam asked Michael to trust what he saw
with his naked eyes – he saw Gwen
throwing rubbish away and a hand dropped
out from the garbage bag when he was on
the way to his car.