The three students used social facilitation to form a group and fulfill their lecturer's requirement by combining their magical powers to create a tree. A monster then appeared, prompting one of the boys to use fear-based appeals to persuade the hesitant girl to join them in fighting the monster. After defeating the monster, they realized through upward counterfactual thinking that it was not actually evil and befriended it, demonstrating positive social interaction.

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3. Group Members
Jacquelyn Vanessa
Tan Jingwei
Deong Khai Keat
Nabila Hanim
Chan Tian Ji

4. Social Facilitation

5. Social Facilitation
Definition:
The tendency of performing better in the presence of
others.

6. How is Social Facilitation portrayed?
● The 3 students formed a group
together knowing that they will
perform better with each other’s
presence.
● Outcome: They fulfilled the
lecturer’s requirement by making
a tree with the help of each other’
s powers.

7. Fear-Based Appeal

8. Fear-Based Appeal
Definition:
A persuasive message that attempts to arouse fear in order to
divert behavior through the threat of impending danger or
harm.

9. How is Fear-Based Appeal portrayed?
● A monster appears
● 2 of the boys are ready to defeat it
but the girl is hesitant due to her
fears.
● 1 of the boys attempts to
persuade her to fight.
● Outcome: Girl is successfully
persuaded and agrees to fight the
monster.

10. Self-Verification Theory

11. Self-Verification Theory
Definition:
People want others to see them as they see themselves.

12. How is Self-Verification Theory
portrayed:
● The boy believe in himself that they
can defeat the monster. But the girl
is not confident with his belief.
● The guy kept persuading the girl
that they can defeat the monster as
what he believed.
● Outcome: The girl finally agreed to
follow the other two guys to defeat
the monster.

13. Persuasion

14. Persuasion
Definition:
Something meant to get you to do or believe something.
If you’re not sure you want to go somewhere, your
friend might use persuasion to talk you into it.

15. How is Persuasion portrayed?
● The monster appear
● Character A decide to defeat the
monster, but Character B can’t do it.
● Character A persuade character B by
threaten her with her family.

16. Stereotype

17. Stereotype
Definition:
a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or
idea of a particular type of person or thing.

18. How is Stereotype portrayed?
● A monster appear
● The three characters think that the
monster is evil
● They successfully defeated the monster
and bound it up
● They realised that the monster is not evil
as they though and they released it.

19. Upward Counterfactual Thinking

20. Upward Counterfactual Thinking
Definition:
The tendency to imagine better possible outcomes for
events that have already happened.

21. How is Upward Counterfactual Thinking
portrayed?
● The moment they realized it was not an
evil monster, they felt a sense of
remorse for their actions.
● They thought “if only we did not do that,
we would have been good friends” and
that worsened their mood a little bit.
● Outcome: Monster does not feel
offended and all four of them become
good friends.

22. Social Interaction

23. Social Interaction
Definition:
A process of reciprocal stimulation or response between two or
more people. It develops competition, interaction, influences social
roles and status and people for social relationships.

24. How is Social Interaction portrayed?
● A battle with the monster that appeared.
● They won the war and successfully
bound up the monster.
● The monster started to explain that he
does not like hurting people, and that he
is only travelling around.
● Therefore, they apologized and made
friends with the monster.