1. Social Psychology – Journal 1
A title of self-concept was learnt on the first lecture in social psychology class. We were
told to define ourselves with the words “I am …..” at the starting of the class. After that, Miss
Ang our lecturer told us that without realizing we could have written about more than 100
answers. The way we define ourselves in the answer are our self-schemes. The examples are I
am shy, I am underweight and many more. People tend to see themselves at the centre of the
stage and it is called the spotlight effect. Such as the times that we fell on the ground and thought
that everybody around was laughing at us but in conclusion, only a part of the people was
looking at us. We tend to expect a bunch of people looking at us all the time and felt embarrassed
after a humiliating act but the reaction was not as bad as we expected. Other than that, we can
describe our social identity through self and culture. Everybody’s personal identity is different
but some traits may be the same.
Another topic that I learned from the class was the power of positive thinking. There was
a book that I read a few years ago which had a connection with positive thinking. The book was
“the secret” written by Rhonda Byrne. The book talks about positive thinking can create lifechanging results such as increasing in health, happiness and wealth.
Social Psychology – Journal 2
In the previous social psychology class, I leant about the topic vision. The structure of the
eye is a very interesting. Every part of the eye has its own function. A disorder of vision can
cause a person to not see things as clear as a normal eye.
The next topic that I learnt from the class was the effect of colour. In psychology, colour
can affect or show a person’s feeling. Everybody’s effects towards a colour are different. For
example, the colour red may look violent to a person but another person may say red looks
romantic. The effect of every colour may be different to everybody. I am also taught that the
colour red is more attracting to the eye than other colours.
After further research on the topic colour psychology, the general model of colour
psychology relies on six basic principles. They are colour can carry specific meaning, colour

2. meaning is either based in learned meaning or biologically innate meaning, the perception of a
colour causes evaluation automatically by the person perceiving, the evaluation process forces
colour motivated behavior, colour usually exerts its influence automatically and colour meaning
and effect has to do with context as well.
In class, I also learnt that colours can also be used to attract business. Such as the fast
food business McDonald, the brand name which is in red makes customers feel hungry and eat
more. Other than food, games which hold a name in red is also more popular than other games
title with other colours such as the game Mario.