1. NAME: Muhd Syafiq Bin Hj Abd Zariful
STUDENT ID: 0314702
SUBJECT: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
LECTURER: MS. PANG CHIA YEE
COURSE: FNBE APRIL 2013
INTAKE
TUESDAY CLASS 3:30PM

2. Journal: Attitudes
Attitudes are positive or negative evaluations of objects of thoughts. They are, like
others, an important part of psychology. This topic is divided into different sub-topics
which involves theories of attitude change in learning and they are also video
experiments.
Attitudes and attitude change, they are three possible components for attidues and
three factors in changing attitudes. The components are cognitive, affective, and
behavioral whereas the factors in changing attitudes are source, message and receiver.
Examples of the three components are shown on slide which the lecturer bring up
about gun control, when a person say "gun owners end up shooting themselves more
often than they shoot thieves." is called cognitive component (beliefs, ideas), showing
emotions or feelings such as when a person said "guns make me sick" is called
affective component, and behavioral component is when people are showing some
predispositions to act such as when a person said that he/she would vote for guncontrol advocates in whatever possible.
Theories of attitude change in learning, there are three theories which are evaluative
conditioning, operant conditioning and observational learning. Operant conditioning
is a form of learning in which responses come to be controlled by their consequences.
for example, when a person tell a joke and it was rewarded by the friends who
laughed, that made the person want increase the tendency to tell jokes. After that the
lecturer showed us an exapmle of operant conditioning with a video experiment
showing a bird trying to get food by pecking the button in which the bird understands
how the button works after several tries and also some actions are needed.
observational learning is when an organisms's responding is influenced by the
observation of others, who are called models. In this sub-topic the lecturer showed a
video of a child entering a room filled with various items after observing a video or
something and is left there for a long time while there are cameras around to observe
the child. What the child does is doing all those violent actions that the child have
seen in the video, this shows what observational learning means.
Personally this made me realize about myself, how i changed my attitude since when i
was a child, how i developed by learning the mistakes and how i learn what to like
and what to dislike.

3. Journal: Conformity and Group Behaviour
Comformity and group behaviour, in the lecture we start off with a picture that from
what i thought before the lecturer told me is a ppicture experiment which i was right.
This experiment needs to have a group of people, the picture has two boxes which
have different lengths of lines in one box and only one line on the other. The lecturer,
is to question us about which line on that box is the same as the other and we
answered the one thta looks obvious. The lecturer straightaway told us what this
experiment is about, it was to test an individual in a group where other people will say
the wrong answer on purpose in which from test results the test subject follows what
other people say. Other examples on comformity is that it involves yielding to socia
pressure and it divides into group size to a point and group unanimity.
After that us students were shown a video about Stnley Milgram controversial
landmark experiment which the lecturer also brought up that this is how Nazis used to
do for punishment at their time. The video shows the student sitting on a chair with a
device that gives electric shock and the teacher on the other room are to asks
questions from him and if the answers is wrong the electric shock is activated by him
in which he will increase the voltage the more when the student answered wrong. In
the teacher's room, there is an examiner which he will be there to examine the teacher.
In the experiement the student and the examiner are fakes which they will mostly
concentrate on the teacher's actions, the student will act like he was in pain until to the
point where he coudnlt say anything while the examiner tries to order the teacher to
keep going. They're many teachers who follows the examiner's orders and increases
the voltage to the end, some stopped halfway because the teacher couldn't stand what
he/she was doing which is the right thing to do. The experiment was to show how
long the teacher will follow what the examiner's said to do when knowing that the
more the teacher increases the voltage makes the student feel in pain.
Social roles is the power of situations. On this topic we watched a video of some
actors where man tries to kidnap a child and it is for people to notice the scene in
which the experiment is to see how they react. The results are quite interesting, they
are people who simply ignored and even went pass through them without thinking of
helping. More than 50% people decided not to help, in the video after several tests
they've finally found some people who tried to help and they were two young boys.
Benefits of groups is that sometimes things can be better off with groups such as a
group of doctors can get better results or groups are better in solving logical problems