1. Rowing Boat
Farah Akmal bt Mohd Zamzuri 0315884
Herbert Liew Fung Zhean 0316133
Liew Hong Zhi 0315836
Moshiny Gunnoo

2. Every weekend, Shankar follows his dad to the sea. He
always observes how his dad rows the boat. He wishes to be a
professional rower. As he grows up, he works out a lot to make
him stronger.
One day, he met up with a group of people who invest a
lot in rowing and shared the same ambition as him. He joined the
group and has a rowing activity every weekend with them.
Shankar founds out about a rowing competition and plan on
joining it together with his friends. Everyone was enthusiast except
Herbert. They trained day and night together with hope that they
will win the match.
But one day, Herbert was taking a break from the
practice and accidentally saw their opponent, Hong Zhi’s team
was weak and that info made them less practice.
Finally, the day for the competition is here. Herbert’s team
was over confident that they will win the match because their first
impression of them was weak. The competition begins. They
rowed hard as planned and overcome their opponent while
Herbert plans to slack. But the opponent overcome them and
won the competition. They all were sad with the result and
blamed Herbert for their lost.

3. Social Loafing
• Social loafing occurs when persons are performing a task as
part of a group and individual effort cannot be identified.
Because all members of the group are pooling their effort to
achieve a common goal, each member of the group
contributes less than they would if they were individually
responsible.
• This situation can be seen where Herbert played a role as part
of the group but he plans to slack and that can be consider
as a social loafing because his individual effort cannot be
identified.

4. BIRGing
"Basking in Reflected Glory"
• Feeling good by identifying with others who are successful
• The tendency to associate one's self with the success attained
by others as though it were your own. It capitalizes on
an affiliation with successful individuals or groups, whereby
any association at all already enhances the self-
image and self-esteem.
BIRGing in the story is when Shankar joined a group full with
people who have knowledge about rowing and that made
him feeling good being with these kind of people. He joined
them practicing every weekend to sharpen up their
technique.

5. Stereotype
• A stereotype assumes that all members of a group share some
common feature
• Shankar joined the rowing group because he thought that all
the members shared the same ambition like him. He does not
notice that one member, named Herbert does not take the
rowing competition seriously and make them lost the
competition.

6. The Primacy effect
• The first piece of information we receive will have the most
impact on our impression
• The primacy effect occurs when Herbert accidentally saw
their opponents weakness and they’re weak, this first piece of
information leave a huge impact on him and his team when
he told the information he gets to all his team mates.

7. The Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis
• Frustration occurs when something prevents us from enjoying
an expected reward
• Aggression is usually directed at the cause of the interference
• This concept is used in the last of the story when they all upset
and blaming Herbert for their lost.