This document contains a student's journal submission for a social psychology course. It includes four sections that define and provide examples of different types of social behaviors: 1) Social facilitation - Doing better on simple tasks when observed by others due to performing tasks they are already good at. The student describes their SPM examination experience. 2) Sociocultural perspective - How surrounding social and cultural factors influence individual behaviors. 3) Social influences - Changes in individual thoughts, feelings or behaviors from interacting with others or groups, distinct from conformity, power or authority. 4) Extrinsic motivation - Doing something for an external reward or to avoid punishment rather than internal satisfaction.

1. FOUNDATION IN BUILT ENVIROMENT
(MARCH INTAKE SEM2)
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGHY – JOURNAL 1
NAME: NG JI YANN
STUDENT ID: 0323713
CODE:
SUBMISSIONDATE: 30TH
November 2015
TUTORIAL GROUP: MONDAY(5:30PM-7:30PM)
LECTURE:

2. Type of Social Behavior :
Social Facilitation
Definition :
The tendency for people to do better on simple tasks when in the presenceof
other people. This implies that, whenever people are being watched by others,
they will do well on things that they are already good at doing.
Situation:
Last year was my SPM year and it also last year been at my secondary life. SPM
examination make all of the Form 5 Students , Teacher & parent worry .
I am a art-streamstudent .In this examination I had register for 6 compulsory
subjects and 4 elective subjects. Elective subjects ,such as : Add-Maths ,
Accounting , Economics and Chinese .
My resultin Trail Examination was notso good , so I need to put more effort
on it . After our usualclass , our teacher will had a free tuition class for us .

3. Type Of Social Behavior :
SocioculturalPerspective
Definition:
theory used in various fields such as psychology and is used to describe
awareness of circumstances surrounding individuals and how their behaviors
are affected specifically by their surrounding, socialand culturalfactors
Situation:

4. Type of Social Behavior:
Social Influences
Definition:
Defined as change in an indi- vidual's thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or beha-
viors that results frominteraction with another individual or a group. Social
influence is distinct from conformity, power, and authority.
Situation:

5. Type Of Social Behavior :
Extrinsic Motivation
Definition :
Doing something for the purposeof obtaining an external reward or outcome
is called extrinsic motivation. Besides that , it might be done to avoid
punishmentor earn a specific reward.
Situation :

6. Type of Social Behavior:
Availability Heuristics
Definition :
The availability heuristic is a mental shortcutthat relies on immediate
examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific
topic, concept, method or decision.
Situation :