1. Group member :
Lew Quo Ming 0322884
Chang May Chen 0322636
Karen Choo 0322480
Haroon Faleel 0322197
Soh Young Zhou 0322123
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3. Concept 1: Belief in a just world
• The belief that good things happen to good people and bad
things happen to bad people.
• Allows us to blame others misfortunes on them rather than the
circumstances.
• Affects our choice to help or not help others.
4. Concept 2: Social Loafing
• Individuals make less effort when in
a group than they would if they
attempting to achieve the goal on
their own
• Occurs when persons are
performing a task as part of a group
and individual effort cannot be
identified
5. Concept 3: Schema
• A mental concept that informs a person about what to expect
from a variety of experiences and situations
• Jean Piaget and the role of the schemas cognitive development
• Accommodation-
We modify existing
cognitive schemas
in order to include
new information
6. Concept 4: Prosocial Behavior
• Any action intended to help others
• Egoistic model: motivated by the desire to increase one’s own
welfare
• Behind every action that appears to be altruistic there is really a
selfish motive
7. Concept 5 : Self-Serving bias
• The self-serving bias is people's tendency to
attribute positive events to their own
character but attribute negative events to
external factors.
• Attribution
Internal – reasons that come
from within
External – reasons from the
world around us
