1. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE,BUILDING AND DESIGN
THE DESIGN SCHOOL
FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT
NAME: LIM TING LE
STUDENT ID NO: 0320028
GROUP/SESSION: MONDAY4-6PM
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

2. Racism consists of several different and often related ideologies centered around
the concept of race. Modern variants are often based in social perceptions of biological
differences between peoples. These can take the form of social actions, practices or beliefs,
or political systems that consider different races to be ranked as inherently superior or
inferior to each other, based on presumed shared inheritable traits, abilities, or qualities. It
may also hold that members of different races should be treated differently. In real life, my
true experience is when me and my friends hanging out and for some food at mamak. My
friends decide the location to eat by the amount of chinese in the mamak. My friend rather
choose the mamak shop with full of chinese over the mamak with full of indian. In this case, I
fell that this is kind of racism happened with it. Next, my other experience is from my friend
Kumar. He is a chindian which chinese mixed with indian. He knew how to speak mandarin
and tamil. One day, he was taking his lunch at the school canteen. He decided to sit with his
indian friends but the reaction of the indian friends after he came and sat together was silent.
From this reaction, I can see that racism was happened. Besides that, racism also happened in
Taylor University. Example likes Malay seat with Malay, Chinese seat with Chinese , Indian seat with
Indian. For me, I just like to sit with my friends who are Chinese.

3. A heuristic technique, sometimes called simply a heuristic, is any approach to problem
solving, learning, or discovery that employs a practical methodology not guaranteed to be optimal
or perfect, but sufficient for the immediate goals. Where finding an optimal solution is impossible
or impractical, heuristic methods can be used to speed up the process of finding a satisfactory
solution. Heuristics can be mental shortcuts that ease the cognitive load of making a decision.
Examples of this method include using a rule of thumb, an educated guess, an intuitive judgment,
stereotyping, profiling, or common sense. More precisely, heuristics are strategies using readily
accessible, though loosely applicable, information to control problem solving in human beings
and machines.in my experience, one day me and my mother was shopping at tesco. I realise that
the price of rice was RM30 per pack and my mother don’t want to buy it. But this time, the price
of the rice per pack is rm29.99 and my mother decided to buy it. The farming of heuristic is the
small changes of the price, the huge changes of the demand of the buyer.

4. Motivation is literally the desire to do things. It's the difference between waking up
before dawn to pound the pavement and lazing around the house all day. It's the crucial
element in setting and attaining goals—and research shows you can influence your own
levels of motivation and self-control. So figure out what you want, power through the pain
period, and start being who you want to be. In year 2013, I was facing an exam which is
SMP when I was form 5. That exam was one of the toughest exam in my entire life and that
exam was the key for my future. My parents and family member did encourage me for the
exam and I was very stress too. Therefore, my parents promised me that if I get a flying
colour result, we will travel to Korea during the holiday. In that situation, that trip motivated
me to another level which I keep on study and boost up myself to get off the laziness. Finally,
I finished my exam and get a wonderful result for my parents and myself. I was able to
choose my course in Taylor’s University with my result. With that motivation level, I can
achieve anything I want to.

5. In psychology, a first impression is the event when one person first encounters
another person and forms a mental image of that person. Impression accuracy varies
depending on the observer and the target (person, object, scene, etc.) being observed. First
impressions are based on a wide range of characteristics: age, race, culture, language,
gender, physical appearance, accent, posture, voice, number of people present,
and time allowed to process. The first impressions individuals give to others could greatly
influence how they are treated and viewed in many contexts of everyday life. Using the
repeated Trust Game, we investigated how first impressions and experience affect trusting
dispositions, beliefs, and behaviors. As in previous research, trusting beliefs and trust-
related behaviors were greater at the start of the game for partners with trustworthy faces;
and higher later in the game for partners who reciprocated. Three additional findings
extended beyond the previous research. First, by measuring the discrete components of
trusting beliefs rather than an umbrella “trustworthiness” measure, we confirmed that first
impressions and experience influence judgments of competence, benevolence, and integrity.
Moreover, we found suggestive evidence that perceptions of benevolence and integrity
updated more quickly with experience than perceptions of competence. Second, by looking
at trusting beliefs at the start of two consecutive repeated Trust Games, we found that
judgments of competence, benevolence, and integrity continue to be influenced by
trustworthy facial appearances, even after previous beliefs based on facial appearances
were disconfirmed. Third, we found increased investment with a partner at the start of a
second repeated Trust Game, even when participants expected their partners to betray them.
Overall, our results clarify our understanding of how first impressions and experience
influence trusting beliefs; provides evidence that changes in the repeated Trust Game
represents learning about a specific partner rather than revisions of trusting dispositions; and
highlights important distinctions between trusting beliefs and trust-related behaviors.

6. Self concept is an important term for both social psychology and humanism. This is the
most basic part of the self-scheme or self-concept; the sense of being separate and distinct
from others and the awareness of the constancy of the self”. In my research, I learned to
how to see myself and how I value myself. Everyday when I wake up in the morning and
face to the mirror, imperfection, laziness, madness and this is how I see myself everyday.
Normally, I woke up in the early morning and went to Taylor University for study, then back
home when the classes were finished that day. Once I arrived my house,I will seat in front of
my computer and continues playing my online game. This action will last longer and reapeat
and repeat. Beside my weakness,I found out that I have some activenesstoo.For example,I
like to play badminton, football and attractive exercisestoo. . Change the weakness, maintain
the fortes, focus on a goal, future life will be success automatically.