1) The document is a submission by Herbert Liew Fung Zhean, student ID 0316133, for a Psychology course taken in July 2014. It discusses several topics: 2) Self-monitoring, where the author believes they are high in self-monitoring and care about their reputation with others. 3) Stereotypes, where the author had a schema that feminine men are gay, but learned this can be untrue through experience. 4) Optimistic bias, where the author believed they would never get in an accident, but then was involved in a crash after their exam.

1. Name: Herbert Liew Fung Zhean
Student ID: 0316133
Course: FNBE 2013 July Intake
Subject: Psychology
Submission Date: 12 May 2014

2. Self-monitoring
I personally think that I’m high in self-monitoring. I usually don’t allow
myself to be late in every gathering or event that happening. Sometimes I
don’t like my friend making other people wait too. For example another
friend is coming to fetch us at our condo, but my friend are still preparing,
I will rush them to get ready faster sometimes even angry to them. For
lecture class, I don’t take that so serious.
I also care about my reputation towards other people. For example, I give
respect to others so that people won’t think that I’m snobbish. (especially
elderly people)

3. Stereotype
I got a schema that guys who act sissy (guys who look feminine) are gay.
Here’s the story start, my family and I often go to a restaurant near our
house when my mother didn’t cook for dinner. There is a guy that works
as a cashier act like a sissy. In fact, he already got a wife and a child. His
wife and child often come visit him in that restaurant. Through this
experience, I know that people that are sissy doesn’t means they are gay.
My neighbour is a big buff nigga. One day I come back home alone than
his outside, I’m just suddenly became nervous because I scare he attack
me. Ya, I’m being stereotype in this.

4. Optimistic Bias
During the last day of SPM, my friend and I was chit chatting about
accident or scratch happened to their car. Then I was being so optimistic
and I said that I never been in those situations before. After the last paper,
my friend and I were planning to go for lunch. We drove two cars to the
restaurant, I’m also one of the two driving. There a traffic light outside my
school and I drove after it turns green. Then a guy drove off when it was
red so he crashed my car so badly at the back sit. Luckily only one friend
followed my car so there is no one sitting at the back sit. If there is
someone sitting at the back, they probably will injured badly or may be
dead. Me and my friend sitting in the front doesn’t injured much only the
safety belt injured our shoulder.

5. Observational learning
I learn drum during my secondary school time so that I could play in
church. Base on my own experience, I found it is easier to learn the
pattern of every kind of beat by observing how my teacher plays than
listening to video. So I sometimes record my teacher playing the drum
and practice at home with the video I recorded. It is more efficient than
learning it by ears.
Not only for drum, I found it more easy too in other instrument like piano.
For guitar strumming, I think is more easy with listening cause you can’t
really see when the pick hit the string.

6. Social loafing
During the last semester assignment, I got a group mate that is social
loafing around in our group. During our discussion, he only came once
and he never attend tutorial with us. We need to make a board for that
assignment. During the progress of making the board, he came twice but
he only sitting there or playing around. He didn’t even touch the board
but he did give some advice of making the board. This make me feel like
he only contribute his idea but doesn’t help doing the board. At last we
going to give presentation, he present it like it was all his work. Me and
my group mate doesn’t like him anymore.