1. School of Architecture, Buildings and Design
Foundation in Natural and Built Environment
NAME :CHEONG SIEW YING ( EELYN)
STUDENT ID :0314618
ASSIGNMENT TITLE : SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY JOURNAL 01 ( INDIVIDUAL )
DATE OF SUBMISSION :20TH NOV 2013

2. SELF CONCEPT
The first day of the class, Ms. Pang taught us about self-concept. From this lesson, I know
myself better than before. In this class, I’ve learned about the behavior and feelings of human.
Sometimes, we will mispredict our behavior and feeling. When we are involved in some
situations, we kind of lost control or unable to handle it rationally, people who are close to us
will know clearly than us, so sometimes advices from others must be concerned. For instance,
couple who are in love each another, they will said their love last forever, but the people who
beside them likes friends and family will know better than them, as the words said, love is
blind.
In addition, positive thinking is very important that effect your emotion either happy or sad.
No matter how bad the situation is, just positive, it might help us to overcome the difficulty.

3. SELF KNOWLEDGE
In this lesson, we learned that our thinking is partly controlled and partly automatic. After
this class, I realized that mostly we would overestimate things such as plans, times etc. For
instance, I thought I can finish my English essay within two hours, but actually, I finished it
about four hours. From this case, we can say that, we can’t estimate things correctly and often
goes the other ways from our thought.
Another topic that I have learned from this lesson is reconstructing our past attitudes. The
attitude that I have ten years before and ten years after are difference. Sometimes, our attitude
change due to the surroundings. The differences that can be see clearly are the maturity is
being increasing.
Self – serving bias is the tendency to perceive oneself favourably, means that we will praise
ourselves and give reasons when we success; if failure they will not blame themselves but
lucks. For example, I get the highest marks in my class for my Biology subject because I
work hard for it; I was in bad luck yesterday so I failed my English test.

4. VISION
In this topic, Visions , is less related to social psychology, but for me it is the most
interesting topic, I really enjoyed it. It is about what you observe and focusing on. For me, the
most interesting part is the colors. What I have learned is red color is the most attractive color
especially when girls wearing red dress or clothes, she will easily attracted boys. From this
lesson, it mentions that red colors bring the feelings of strong and active. Personally, I’m
agree with that. The things that are in red normally will attract our attention more compare to
other color. For examples, traffic light turns red means stop. The new thing that I’ve learned
is we will have more appetite if we are having meals in red color surroundings.