- The document discusses several concepts from social psychology including extrinsic motivation, observational learning, confirmation bias, operant conditioning, and false consensus effect. It provides examples from the author's life to illustrate how each concept has influenced their behaviors and decisions. - The author learned cycling skills through extrinsic motivation when their father promised a reward. Observational learning helped the author learn housework by watching their mother. Experiences with friends showed examples of confirmation bias and false consensus effect. Punishment from a family member was an example of operant conditioning influencing the author to stop smoking.

1. SCHOOL OFARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN
THE DESIGN SCHOOL
FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT
 Name : Wong Qin Kai
 Student ID : 0320024
 Group / Session : Monday (4-6 pm)
 Subject & Course : Social Psychology
 Submission Date : 27th
April 2015

2. Journal 1 , Chapter 2 : Extrinsic Motivation 22th April 2015, 7:03pm
Extrinsic motivation means when someone is motivated by certain action in
response to the external pressure or responsibility. However, it could be used to avoid the
punishment or used to earn tangible reward but it often happens to me when I was ten
years old.
I’m the one who extremely dislike hiking in my family because it’s definitely a
hard physical exercise for me so I always make excuses for myself when I was called to
go with my father every weekend. Meanwhile, I have my own hobby which was cycling.
I like to cycle more than hike. I would rather go starve just because to save money to buy
new accessories for my bicycle from my pocket money. So my father decided to use
variety of methods to encourage me. Finally, he promised me that he would buy me two
set of bicycle accessories if I go hiking with him. For the sake of my bicycle , I decided to
go hiking with my father and took it as a slimming exercise even though at the end of the
destination I sweated a lot and felt short of breath. Last not least , I was happy and touch
because I get another two set of accessories from my dad without paying any money. I
love this kind of motivation because it involved participation in activities for some
specific rewards that external to the process of participation.

3. Journal 2 , Chapter 5 : Observational Learning 22th April 2015 , 10:30pm
In the lecture of Social Psychology, the concept of observational learning attracted
me the most.It’s because this concept often happens on me in my daily life. Observational
Learning is replicating , retaining and watching others engage in behaviors and repeat
those action from a model.
I remembered that when I was in the secondary school , the person that I admired
the most is my mom because she always covers all the household duties without any
complains. Ever when I entered the secondary school , I was still depended a lot on my
mom so that’s the reason why I never became involved in helping with the housework
and another reason is that I always rushed for my assignment that need to hand in every
week .One day after having supper, I saw my mom is folding the clothes tidily in the
room and I was free in that time so I decided to learn from my mom. I observed all the
procedure from her and folded myself. After several researches on it , I also can folded
the clothes tidily. I felt thankful to my mom because of her, I learnt a new thing in my life
and also can often help her with housework. In my opinion , I think that observational
learning played an important role in our daily life so we can learn anything that through
observational learning by observing other people’s behavior.

4. Journal 3 , Chapter 1 : Confirmation Bias 23th April 2015 5:50pm
I had learnt the concept of confirmation bias in my first lesson of social psychology.
It was an unforgettable lesson in my university life as I remembered that day I was
late.When I walked into the lecture hall ,the lecturer who named Mr Shankar was looked
at me ferociously and suddenly asked me to come down. I was afraid of being punished
and don’t wanna make myself foolish in others eyes. But in the end he didn’t made any
punishment on me, he just want me to sit in the first three role.
Here is an example that I’ve experienced the concept of confirmation bias before.
When I was young, my parent told me that the person who had tattoos on his body is a
bad guy. But unfortunately, I had a lot of this kind of friends by my side so as a filial child,
I decided to listen the advise of my parent. Since that day ,I stayed far far away from
them and also eased the relationship between them as I don’t want to be influenced. One
day by accident , I met one of them who named Nicholas in the street. I was shocked
when I saw him because he’s helping a disabled old man to cross the road. After that , the
old man also rewarded him with ten dollars but he rejected and said that helping others is
the origin of happiness. I felt sorry to him because I always biased against him and also
mistaken about him. Lastly, I can clearly understand what confirmation bias mean. It
means the tendency to interpret and search for the information that support to our beliefs.

5. Journal 4 , Chapter 5 : Operant Conditioning 23th April 2015 , 8:55pm
Operant Conditioning is used to weaken or strengthen a particular behavior through
punishment and reinforcement. Here is a example that often happens to me in my daily
life. When I was in secondary school , I am the person who easily get nervous in my
studies. In that time, I was in bad relationship with my girl friend and also no one
willingness to hear my complaints so I decided to smoke even though I knew it’s bad to
our health. One day night, when my sister who named Mary was attended to her friend
birthday party at the cafe that opposite our house and she inadvertently found me
smoking alone at the corner. She was grieved and come to console me but I still
ungrateful. Mary afraid that I will fall into the wrong path so she decided to tell all the
story to my dad. My dad didn’t scolded me but he canned me instead and advised me not
to smoke again. In my opinion, the punishment that given by my dad is a positive
punishment because he wanted me to learn from the mistakes that I did and also wanted
me to weaken this bad behavior.

6. Journal 5 , Chapter 1 : False Consensus Effect 25th April 2015 , 11:55pm
False consensus effect refers to the assumption that other people share their opinions,
beliefs, attitudes and behaviors. This concept also often happens in my daily life. In year
2012 is the only year that I get my driving license. I was happy enough because my dad
bought me a new car as my birthday present.Since that day , I always go out for supper
with my buddies. I remembered that I had a partner named Mildred who often go
swimming with me everyday. However, we also helped each others when we get into
trouble. One day after swimming, we decided to go out for dinner. Suddenly she felt
stomachache and need to go away for a while but unfortunately the waitress came to me
and asked me what to order .I had no choice but to save time , I decided to order one set
of chicken chop for her which I think is the cheapest and best seller meal in the restaurant.
But the unfortunate thing happened , she said that she was allergic to chicken since many
years ago. In this case , I totally understood what this concept mean and false consensus
effect was caused by me . Everyone have their own opinions and beliefs so we are no
longer to help other people make their own decisions.