The document discusses various social psychology concepts like social facilitation, fear-based appeal, self-verification theory, persuasion, stereotypes, upward counterfactual thinking, and social interaction. It provides definitions of each concept and examples of how they are portrayed through the interaction between three characters and a monster they encounter. The characters work as a group to defeat the monster, but later realize it was not evil and release it after learning it meant no harm.

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4. Social Facilitation

5. Social Facilitation
Definition:
The tendency of performing better in the presence
of others.

6. How is Social Facilitation
portrayed?
● The 3 students formed
a group together
knowing that they will
perform better with
each other’s presence.
● Outcome: They
fulfilled the lecturer’s
requirement by making

7. Fear-Based Appeal

8. Fear-Based Appeal
Definition:
A persuasive message that attempts to arouse fear in
order to divert behavior through the threat of
impending danger or harm.

9. How is Fear-Based Appeal
portrayed?
● A monster appears
● 2 of the boys are ready
to defeat it but the girl
is hesitant due to her
fears.
● 1 of the boys attempts
to persuade her to
fight.
● Outcome: Girl is

10. Self-Verification Theory

11. Self-Verification Theory
Definition:
People want others to see them as they see
themselves.

12. How is Self-Verification
Theory portrayed:
● The boy believe in
himself that they can
defeat the monster. But
the girl is not confident
with his belief.
● The guy kept persuading
the girl that they can
defeat the monster as
what he believed.
● Outcome: The girl finally

13. Persuasion

14. Persuasion
Definition:
Something meant to get you to do or believe
something. If you’re not sure you want to go
somewhere, your friend might use persuasion
to talk you into it.

15. How is Persuasion portrayed?
● The monster appear
● Character A decide to
defeat the monster, but
Character B can’t do it.
● Character A persuade
character B by threaten her
with her family.
● Character A is successfully
persuaded Character B to
fight the monster.

16. Stereotype

17. Stereotype
Definition:
a widely held but fixed and oversimplified
image or idea of a particular type of person or
thing.

18. How is Stereotype portrayed?
● A monster appear
● The three characters think
that the monster is evil
● They successfully defeated
the monster and bound it up
● They realised that the
monster is not evil as they
though and they released it.

19. Upward Counterfactual
Thinking

20. Upward Counterfactual
Thinking
Definition:
The tendency to imagine better possible
outcomes for events that have already
happened.

21. How is Upward Counterfactual
Thinking portrayed?
● The moment they realized it
was not an evil monster,
they felt a sense of remorse
for their actions.
● They thought “if only we did
not do that, we would have
been good friends” and that
worsened their mood a little
bit.
● Outcome: Monster does

22. Social Interaction

23. Social Interaction
Definition:
A process of reciprocal stimulation or response between
two or more people. It develops competition, interaction,
influences social roles and status and people for social
relationships.

24. How is Social Interaction
portrayed?
● A battle with the monster
that appeared.
● They won the war and
successfully bound up the
monster.
● The monster started to
explain that he does not like
hurting people, and that he
is only travelling around.