Through a small group activity, the student learned about their own abilities, traits, values, and dreams, as well as gaining insight into their classmates. The student discovered ways to enhance self-efficacy and achieve goals through positive thinking. In the next class, the student explored the concepts of controlled versus automatic thinking, and how intuition can both help and hinder problem solving. They learned that problems can have multiple solutions. The final document discussed how the meaning and representation of color differs cross-culturally. The student found it interesting to learn how color choices can impact lifestyle and mental well-being through positive or negative associations. They gained knowledge about using color in design.

1. Name: LokeChing Yan
Student ID: 0314657
Social Psychology – The Journal

2. The Journal 1
The Self Concept
8thOctober 2013
Today, I attend the class which is about „Self Concept‟. It is a good opportunity for me in
getting to know more about myself at the center of my world through a small group activity
given in class. Through the activity I get the opportunity to know my classmates and also me
myself more in the abilities, traits, values and dreams. Besides, I learn to explain the behavior,
predicting the behavior as well as feelings about myself in the actions that I perform. It is
great to learn the new way of thinking and also the power of positive thinking which is
helpful to enhance one‟s self efficacy in achieving a greater healthy lifestyle andbigger dream.
At here, I have learnt the ways to let the happy step in and this helps to maintain a healthy
lifestyle with positive thinking.

3. The powers and perils of intuition
22thOctober 2013
Today is the refreshing day for me to attend another lesson. I am feeling excited in getting to
learn new things for growing more of my knowledge. Anyhow the class starts with “the
powers and perils of intuition” which explains as well as shows our thinking is partly
controlled and partly automatic. So, the controlled thinking carries reflective, deliberate and
conscious way of dealing with problems. However, the automatic thinking is trained to be the
way used to think from the start. It is impulsive, effortless and unconscious mental concepts
that intuitively guide our perception and interpretations to react naturally accordingly to the
situations. Through the lesson, I have learnt to look things in different ways such as one
problem can be solved in different ways with multiple solutions.

4. A Cross Cultural Study of the Affective Meanings of Color
5thNovember 2013
After the relaxing weekend, it starts to become busy again with workloads. However, it is still
a wonderful day to attend the class and today I get the opportunity to learn the interesting
thing which is the differences as well as meaning from the color representation in psychology.
Besides, I find the study of the affective meanings of color is interesting as it can help to
enhance a person healthy lifestyle. For example, the bright and right matching color can help
to bring up a person‟s with more positive thinking. This is helpful to enhance everyone
lifestyle living in the colorful world. At last, this is the great lesson that I have learnt which
helps me to decide the choice of colors in designs.