John, a weak boy, joins his school's basketball team despite facing stereotypes from muscular teammates. They bully John when the team leader isn't around. Feeling upset, John considers quitting but his father persuades him to continue training. John trains hard everyday, finding motivation when others perform better. During the championship match, John's self-fulfilling prophecy and social facilitation from teammates helps lead his team to victory.

1. Group Members :
Janson Chen
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Wong Yun Teng
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Lee Xin Ying
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Social
Psycholog
y Comic
Strip

4. Synopsis
This comic is about a boy call John who has a big dream. He is a short
and weak boy, but he wants to become strong. He desires to be a professional
basketball player.
John started to chase his dream from joined the basketball team in his
school. The team leader, Brian who is a nice person, he accepted the request of
John although John’s stamina was not that good. However, other team members
thought that John had not enough qualification to join their team.
When the team was training for the match, other team members will
always bully John when Brian was not around the basketball court. John felt
upset and sad, he cried when he came back home. He told his father he had the
idea of gave up because he thought that he can not do well in sport. John’s
father consoled and told him about his story when he was young. After that,
John decided and started to train himself become stronger.
He trained himself in gymnasium everyday after school and continued
the training of the basketball team. When he saw someone was better than him,
he will urge himself to put more effort. During the match day, before the match
was on, John told himself he can do it well and he will help his team to get the

5. 5 Concepts
• Stereotype
• Discrimination
• Persuasion
• Social Facilitation
• Self – fulfilling Prophecy

6. Stereotype
A stereotype is a fixed, over generalized belief about a
particular group or class of people.

7. Some of the
muscular team
members think that
John has not
qualification to join
their team and do
not want to be his
friend. This is
because they
assumed that this
puny boy tends to
be a weaker and will
not give them any
benefit in the match
after he joined their
team.

8. Discrimination
Discrimination is the behaviour or actions, usually negative,
towards an individual or group of people, especially on the
basis of sex, race, physical appearance or social class.

9. When the basketball
team was training
for the match, other
team members will
always bully John
when the team
leader, Brian was
not around the
basketball court.

10. Persuasion
A symbolic process in which communicators try to convince
others to change their attitudes or behaviours regarding an issue
through the transmission of a message in an atmosphere of free
choice.

11. John felt upset and
sad because other
team members
always bully him.
He cried when he
came back home
and told his father
he had the idea of
gave up because he
thought that he can
not do well in sport
and he can’t
assimilate into the
team. John’s father
consoled and told
him about his story
when he was

12. Social Facilitation
Social facilitation is the tendency for people to do perform
differently when in the presence of others than when
alone. Compared to their performance when alone, when
in the presence of others, they tend to perform better on
simple or well-rehearsed tasks and worse on complex or
new ones.

13. He trained himself in
gymnasium everyday
after school and
continued the
training of the
basketball team.
When he saw
someone was better
than him, he urged
himself to put more
effort.

14. Self-fulfilling Prophecy
A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that directly or
indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms
of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between
belief and behaviour.

15. During the match
day, before the
match was on,
John told himself
he can do it well
and he will help his
team to get the
champion. He used
all his strength and
stamina in this
match and finally,
his team get the
champion.