Social Psychology Journal 1

1. Student Name: Abdullah Mamode
Student I.D.: 0319562
Group/Session: Monday 9 am - 11 am
Subject: Social Psychology
Subject Code: PSY 30203
Title: Individual Journal 1

2. Classroom Teacher
Setting:
This event happened during my days in high school.
Scene:
What students think on their teachers’ personal lives and the interference
of teachers in students’ lives?
Social Psychology:
I was admitted in a Private Islamic High School; there all students have to wear clothes
in an Islamic manner. All boys were wearing dark blue trousers with light blue (Kurta) shirt with
head cap and for the girls, they wore dark blue Jilbaab (dress) with white hijab (head cover). As

3. for the teachers, they could wear any formal cloth but should not be indecent. As one of the
teachers who was teaching Islamic History, during my early years in high school, he was always
wearing the Muslim male traditional dress that is the Thaub (in the picture above). His wife also
was teaching in the same school and was wearing the Jilbaab (Long Black Dress) and Burqa
(Black Cloth for head and face cover).
My perception on him and that of my friends’ also was that he was a very cultured and a
religious people, comes from a very religious family. We thought that he was a very pious man.
(This is Social Perception.) Others were also influenced by what we were thinking about him.
(This is Social Influence.) But the truth was totally different from what we were thinking about
him. Outside his professional life, he wore casual clothes which makes him looks good-looking
and kept on flirting with young girls who were coming for tuitions at his place.
In High School, the Tennis Court was just beside the teachers staff. When I and my
friends used to play in the Tennis Court, we used to perform very well when playing alone. But
as others students used to come there and play as well or sit and watch us playing and also when
the teachers in the staff used to glanced at us and give their negative comments always worsened
our performance. (This is called Social Loafing.)
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