The document discusses four perspectives of social psychology - sociocultural, evolutionary, social cognitive, and social learning - and how the author experienced them in preparing for an exam. Specifically, the author notes how exam culture influenced them to focus on memorization rather than learning. The author also discusses how lack of sleep due to last-minute studying impacted them due to evolutionary needs for rest. However, the author learned to take notes in class for deeper understanding from observing a classmate, showing social learning.

1. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & DESIGN
Foundation of nNatural Build Environment (FNBE)
Name: Chong Chin Pin
ID: 0319595
Group/ Session: Monday 2p.m. - 4p.m.
Subject and Course: Social Psychology (Foundation in Natural and Built Environment)
Submission Day: 27 April 2015

2. Journal 2
Date: 30 March 2015 - 31 March 2015
Time: Time before 8 a.m. of 31 April 2015
Theories or concepts: Sociocultural Perspective, Evolutionary Perspective, Social
Cognitive Perspective and Social Learning Perspective
There are four different perspectives of social psychology which are the
sociocultural perspective, evolutionary perspective, social cognitive perspective and social
earning perspective. These four social psychology perspective are common in our daily
life. They may occur surrounding between you and I everyday. Therefore, they may
influence our life.
Nowadays, exams become very important in students’ life. It is an assessment to
measure students’ knowledge, skills, aptitude and others. The results will be often in grade
or in score. Every students are willing to get the high score. Even though their parents and
teachers also hope that the students can get the good results. All of these expectations
form a negative culture which is changing students to become an exam machines.
Students only focus on what will be come out in the exam and they memorise all that
points. This negative culture influence the students when they study. It make them to think
that exam is more important than learning.
In my course, there are many of my coursemates will try to memorise all the
informations from the presentation slides given by lectures before exams. These may
caused them have a short-term memory about the lessons for the preparations before the
exam. However, all these lessons will be forget by them soon after the exam. This
negative culture had also influenced me. I forced myself to memorise the important points
that the exam will come out because I did not had much time to prepare my exam. This
was one of the faster way for me to review the lessons. I felt that I was learning nothing
even though I was reading. Plus, the points that I memorised had be forgot after few days.
This showed that I only had a short-term memory about the lessons instead of long-term
memory. Therefore, I changed this negative attitude after that exam because the method
was not good for learning.

3. Students nowadays pay more attention on exams than learning skills from the
teaching of lectures. This is because they believe that a good results is more important
and believe that good certificates will help them to achieve what they want in the future
such as higher opportunities to get a good job and high salary. Therefore, they think that
exams will be place at their first place in their cognition. It assumes that a person’s
cognitive process will be influenced by behavioural associations. Last time, I also thought
that results were more important but I changed my opinion. In my opinion, I felt that exams
will not help me so much in my future. This is because many university students also did
not get any jobs after they graduated even though they had a good certificate. I learned
that knowledge are one of the wealth that only for me and help me in my life.
The evolutionary perspective of social psychology occurred when I was preparing
for my exam. I did not sleep on the day before exam to review the tips that given by the
lecture that the tips may come out in the exam. I am the one who need to sleep for at least
six hours a day. I will feel not energy and spirit to do thing if I do not have enough rest.
However, I gave up my sleeping time that day for my exam because I wished to get a
better result in exam. Therefore, it showed that when a person is worry about something,
he or she will try to put more efforts as well as making changes on himself or herself. This
showed that human will enhance their potential when they are in a forced situation.
Humans learning in every second. People will not stop learning no matter what age
they are. For an example, a person injured after he touched a hot kettle, then he learned
that he should not touch the kettle when it is still hot. This showed that people learned
lessons from their experiences in daily life. I would make some notes to record the lessons
given by the lectures. This method let me understand deeply about the lessons taught by
the lectures. I learned this method from one of my coursemates after observed her. I
realised that she will make notes to record the lessons that lectures teach at that time. She
always got better result compared to others. Then, I started to mak notes in class like she.
I realised that this method is efficient that students can review their notes and get deeper
understanding towards the lessons.
In a nutshell, these four social psychology’s perspectives are common occur in our
life. I experienced these perspectives before my exam. I noted that these perspectives

4. may be positive or negative to us sometimes. If we focus on the negative role model or
things, we also will be influenced.