The document summarizes two lectures on social psychology topics - attraction and close relationships, and conformity and group behavior. The first lecture discusses three factors that can bring people together: proximity, familiarity, and similarity. The second lecture covers conformity based on Solomon Asch's line experiment and discusses group behaviors like the bystander effect, how group size impacts productivity, and social loafing. The student found both lectures insightful for understanding relationship and group dynamics.

1. FNBE0413
CHEAH TECK WEI 0315215
PSYC0103
17th December 2013
Today's lecture is about "attractiveness and close relationships". The outline of this
lecture is what causes attraction, close relationships, love and relationships and ending
intimate relationships. Throughout the lecture I have learnt the facts that can bring people
together. Firstly, proximity is the key. Proximity is the distance between people such as do
they live or work close to each other? There's an experiment that actually proven this, the
experiment of domity. The experiment shows that how easy that people from different room
get together in the different floor. It is really a quite an interesting experiment. Based on my
own experience, people from same school, university tend to get together easier compared to
people from different school because they can meet each other often and have more
interactions. This also involves the fact "Familiarity". Familiarity is the repeated exposure to
an object results in greater attraction to that object, in simple, we tend to be friends with
someone which is from the same secondary school as us when we are in the same university
although we don't know each other before that. The last fact is the "Similarity". Similarity is
the common thing we have in each other. For example, my friend, Jason and I, has a common
hobby that brings us together which is playing computer game. The similarity can be hobby,
attitude and taught. People who have a similarity in attitude also tend to be together as they
think that people that are similar to them will like them too.
Three of these facts really gave me a strike on my mind that explains the things
which is happening in my daily life such as friends starting a relationship, breaking up and so
on. It was a great lesson the learnt and I am sure it will be useful for the future of my life.
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2. FNBE0413
CHEAH TECK WEI 0315215
PSYC0103
10th December 2013
In social psychology, we learn about things happening around us. Today, we had
learnt about conformity and group behaviour. Understanding conformity is easy by carrying
out an experiment from Soloman Asch. The experiment is showing a line comparing with
three lines with different length and one of it is obviously correct, then the whole class would
be told that telling that one of the wrong answer is correct instead of the correct one when
someone go out from the class. So the experiment starts, the people comes in and Ms. Pang
starts asking which was the correct answer, everyone but that particular person which don’t
know the plan answers the wrong one. He started feeling weird and wondering but he still
thinks that his answer was right. But then later other classmates tells him that he’s wrong, he
started to doubt and finally he chooses the wrong one even he think it’s wrong. Hence,
conformity is yielding to others which is when most of the people do something even it was
wrong, some individual would follow even they think they’re wrong to join the group, it’s
somehow like peer pressure for example when everyone has a phone, you tend to have a
phone too.
Besides conformity, group behaviour is another main topic in this lecture. As in our
course, group assignments were common and we always have to form groups to complete
different assignments. In a group of few people, works can be done faster and also slower
sometimes because of various reasons. In this topic, I had learnt the behaviour in group that
influences the others such as “the Bystander effect”, “group productivity and group size” and
“Social loading – reduction of effort”. The Bystander effect was the effect when people are
less likely to help when they are in groups than when alone. This behaviour could lead to
reduction of efficiency as it took more time for a work to be done. Other than that, group
productivity and group size could also lead to reduction in efficiency caused by lack of
coordination. Lastly, when there were more people, some people would blend to the crowd
and do nothing in ease as well as reducing work effort. All of these problems could actually
solved by choosing proper member with good personalities such as hardworking and
choosing a right person which has a good leadership. In addition, grouping also has some
benefits such as increasing in productivity, solving complicated logic problem faster and also
completing work faster.
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3. FNBE0413
CHEAH TECK WEI 0315215
PSYC0103
In this topic, I had understood the reasons that may reduce the productivity of a group
and how to solve it. It was really useful as I may go through many assignment in groups with
different peoples.
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