This document contains 5 entries from a student named Patricia Kong Weng Yee about various psychology concepts. The entries discuss the student's self-concept and how she has become more open over time. Another entry describes how she felt relative deprivation compared to her friends during a difficult math test. A third entry discusses how she helped a friend who was being confronted by a boy who had a crush on her, relating it to altruistic models of helping.

1. Name : Patricia Kong Weng Yee
Student ID : 0315837
Group : Monday (8 – 11a.m)
Subject : Pyschology
Course : Foundation in Natural & Built Environment (FNBE) July Intake '13
Submission Date : 12th
May 2014 (Monday)

2. Entry # 1
For this entry, I would use the topic 'Self Concept'. This is about a mental representation of oneself
where it is a large part of how would one describe onself. This could be related to the text and chats
I have with one of my close trusted friend. This is because sometimes to relieve our stress after
chatting about our assignments, we would go off topic and start talking about stuff. Like food or
movies and it would then lead to deep conversations like some personal matter. The deep
conversation would only occur during the night where it is said that people would tend to be more
honest than they are in the day. We would talk about ourself to each other like what's our favourites
or what we dislike or what we like. Chatting with her about myself makes me realized how much I
had changed for the past 4-9 years. I was really really quiet and shy during my primary and
secondary school years and I had really little friends. But as time passes and I experience, meet and
greet a lot of new people from different countries, I tend to be more open minded and more bolder. I
had more friends than before and I am a lot cheerful too although I am still a shy one.

3. Entry # 4
I'm going to use the concept 'relative deprivation' and 'low self – efficacy' for today's entry. Relative
deprivation comes from one of the motivational factors where one will feel unhappy because of the
thought of those being in an outgroup will fare better than oneself. I can relate this to the day I had
my maths test. It was a tough and stressful week and I was busy with moving to a new house. I
didn't quite had much time to prepare for the maths test that was going to be held the next day but I
did tried my best to read a few chapters. And on the next day, I blanked out during the exam. My
friends (outgroup) was doing so well with their papers and I was just there sitting and staring at the
paper, answering nothing at all. Because of the thought that they will definitely pass the test, I felt
unhappy. I almost broke down in tears while trying to answer at least a question but I didn't. And
this is where 'low self – efficacy' comes in. I knew I couldn't answer a single question and so I just
gave up answering eventhough I know that I might lose 10% for it.

4. Entry # 5
There was this incident that happened when I was still in secondary school. I was in Form 2 where I
once have a good friend named Sylvia. She was the kind that would hurt or offend someone without
realizing it for she sometimes act without thinking about the consequences. And because of that
characteristics of hers, she offended a guy. That guy, well...I can't say he's a gangster nor a smart
one, he's just a rich bad boy who had a crush on me. News sure travel fast in my school. And Sylvia
heard about it too and she wrote about it in her blog. I think the guy was offended or maybe he was
scared of his image being ruined. He came to our class one day with his bad naughty friends and
called her out. She didn't know what was going on nor did I but I felt like he was going to do
something bad. I didn't went out with her but after I saw them arguing, I quickly rushed out to stop
it from getting worst. He told me to back off but I didn't budge. His friend then pushed me hard to
the side of the wall and blocked me from getting near Sylvia. He didn't continue the argument
though after he saw what his friend did to me. He warned Sylvia and left with his friends. I was hurt
but it was just a sprained shoulder. Though Sylvia was kind of shocked and scared. To relate the
incident, the concept of Altruistic Models of Helping is used which is the empathy - altruism model
of prosocial behaviour where one are more likely to help others' whose welfare is threatened.

5. Entry # 3
For today's entry, I would use the concept of 'affective,implicit and explicit attitude' where affective
attitudes means it is an emotional based kind of attitude and implicit attitude means the attitude
formed without one's conscious awareness whereas explicit attitude means the attitude where one
recognizes and can get a control on it. To relate them to me, it happened a few days ago. A boy in
my course, well, I'm usually okay with him but recently I started to have a dislike on him. I didn't
realized I was disliking him (implicit) until just yesterday while we were working on our project
(explicit). Usually when I dislike someone, I would tend to argue with them, disagreeing with every
choices or decisions or any ideas they provide. But I didn't do all that yesterday because I did not
want to cause a scene out of a sudden and affect the other teammates.

6. Entry #2
The concept I would like to use for today's entry would be the emotional expression and detecting
deception. This is where usage of body gestures, speed of the gestures and the context of
communication are being perceived whereas for detecting deception, it is where we have self
verification where because we see ourselves as an honest person, we tend to have trouble seeing
other people as dishonest. And to relate this to my entry of the day, well...it started of like this. One
day, I asked my best friend a question. I asked her to answer it honestly. “What do you really think
about me?” was the question. I wanted to find out what was her thoughts on me and I did not want
her to give those usual answers like “Oh you're smart, quiet, helpful, kind etc etc” bullcrap. And
when she replied, I was surprised. She said I need to express myself more often and not keep
everything inside..well which was true because I was afraid of making the others worry about me
and I did not want to trouble them. Second, I was good at hiding. What she meant was even with all
the problems I had (which I had told her days before), I was still being cheerful. She was impressed
or should I say...disappointed? that I was deceiving my other friends. Should I be astonished by my
actions or should I be guilty about it? That, I have no idea. But I will definitely try my best to
improve myself by learning to express my feelings.