This individual journal describes two experiences from the writer's childhood relating to washing cars. The first experience discusses how the writer intrinsically enjoyed washing cars with their father from a young age after receiving many toy cars as gifts. The second experience discusses an instance where the writer accidentally damaged their mother's car after washing it, but attributed the damage to an accident in order to avoid blame while also taking credit for previously washing the car well.

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 2

2. Car Washing
Setting:
This happened during my late childhood around the age of eight or nine years old
Scene:
I used to wash the car with my father.
Intrinsic Motivation
Since my early childhood, my dad used to buy me a lot of car toys, small cars, tiny one.
Once I remember he came back home from work with 3 boxes of car toys. All for me since I
was the only boy in the family and I were very happy. Since then, I became very fond of cars. I
really enjoyed myself riding in cars with my dad. When he used to wash the car, I used to go
and give him some help in washing and cleaning the car. One day it happened that the car was
very dirty outside and inside as well, and the next day we had to go for a wedding ceremony.

3. But on that day my father was very tired and was not feeling well also. So I told him that I will
wash and clean the car myself up to his satisfaction. Since I was very interested in cars, I was
very motivated to clean the car as for me it was a task where I got know more about the car,
how to wash it properly and clean. And when I was alone cleaning, I explored myself more
about the car and understand how things work and so on. After few years of cleaning the car on
my own, I asked my dad to teach me how to drive even though I wasn’t in the legal age range.
This is Intrinsic Motivation where I was enjoying washing the car on my own rather than being
asked or forced to do so.
Self-Serving Attribution
I remember, one day after I washed my mother’s car, I washed it completely. After
making the look like very shiny and beautiful, I was keeping the car in the garage, but an
unexpected situation happened where I accidentally flip the car with the column of the garage
and the car was slightly damaged. But I didn’t let my mom know about it. Later one day when
she was watching me, she caught me red-handed on going to repeat the same mistake as last
time. And then she rebuked me a lot. But me, I told her that “I always wash your car so clean
and make it shiny all the time, but you never say anything about it and today by mistake I was
going to slightly damage your car, you started to rebuke me a lot as if I was going to crash your
car totally? It happened accidentally, not on purpose.” This is called Self-serving Attribution,
where I was taking credit for washing the car very clean, but was trying to neglect that the car was
damaged because of me.
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