psycho

1. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (PSYC0203)
FINAL PROJECT: GROUP ASSIGNMENT
LIM XIU QING 0323214
WONG MEI XIN 0323824
LOON JING WEI 0322074
GOH JIA JUN 0323302

2. STORY LINE
• The video started when the inspector and the police are having their
usual meeting. Jia Jun and Roy when to the basement car park. Xiu
Qing was in the car park when she saw Roy when into Jia Jun car.
Later that day, Jia Jun was murdered in his car in an abandon parking
lot.
• The next morning Inspector Xiu Qing immediately call Roy into her
office and accuse him for killing Jia Jun. Roy told that Mei Xin called
Jia Jun to fetch her after dropping him off but the Inspector did not
believe him and try to proof Roy guilty for killing Jia Jun. She went to
Jia Jun car and find his belonging to check. In his phone, she saw Mei
Xin called.

3. • During the night on the same day, Inspector Xiu Qing went to Mei Xin
house to check. When she opens one of the drawers, she saw
pictures of murder victim and the next victim which is Roy and
Inspector Xiu Qing in between a knife and a pistol gun. To find more
prove, she went to Jia Jun car and found a bangle that wore by Mei
Xin every day when she come to the office.
• The next morning, she calls up Mei Xin to her office and inspect her.
At first, Mei Xin deny of murdering Jia Jun but after showing the
bangle to her, and ask again and again, she admit that she kill Jia Jun
and said “killing is my passion. I love to murder and I found happiness
by doing it” she said it while laughing. The end.

4. CONFIRMATION BIAS
DEFINITION
Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and
recall information in a way that confirms one's beliefs or hypotheses,
while giving disproportionately less consideration to alternative
possibilities.
Example:
Inspector Xiu Qing accuse Roy for murdering Jia Jun because she saw
that he went back together with Jia Jun after the meeting at night. It was
then, she confirm that Roy kill Jia Jun in his car while not knowing Mei
Xin was the real murderer when he picked Mei Xin after fetching Roy
back. With what she witness, she confirm that Roy kill Jia Jun.

5. STEREOTYPING
DEFINITION
Stereotyping is defined as an "oversimplified, usually pejorative, attitude
people hold toward those outside one's own experience who are
different.
Example:
Roy was being accused for killing Jia Jun due to his bad behavior in the
office. The inspector thinks that he is a bad person but Roy trying to
explain that he is not the one. The inspector does not believe him.

6. HALO EFFECT
DEFINITION
The halo effect is a type of cognitive bias in which our overall
impression of a person influences how we feel and think about his or
her character.
Example:
Roy said that Mei Xin called Jia Jun when they were in the car but Xiu
Qing, which is the inspector but she does not believe that Mei Xin killed
Jia Jun. She thinks of Mei Xin as a good police because she always
does her work well and look innocent.

7. OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING
DEFINITION
When a person watches others (models) engage in behaviors and then
repeating those actions (Albert Bandura) this can explain how we
acquire attitudes, fears, opinions, or specific behaviors.
Example:
Mei Xin’s father pushes her mother and kills her with a knife. She
observes how her father kills her mother and learns from her dad.
Observational comes in play when Mei Xin learn how to kill from her
Father.

8. INTRINSIC MOTIVATION
DEFINITION
Intrinsic Motivation is taking a certain action for the sake of enjoyment
that leads us to be more fully engaged with greater curiosity and
pleasure.
Example:
Mei Xin finds motivation In killing people because she enjoy doing it. It
is her pleasure and she finds happiness when she kills someone. She
felt motivated when she successfully murder someone and happy when
she doesn’t get caught by Inspector Xiu Qing.

9. Thank you