Psychology Journal

NAME : LOVIE TEY YIQING

STUDENT ID NUMBER : 0318155

GROUP / SESSION : MONDAY 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

SUBJECT : SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

COURSE : FNBE AUG INTAKE SEM 2: FNBE 02 / 2014

SUBMISSION DATE : 10 NOVEMBER 2014

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY FNBE 02/ 2014 �1

JOURNAL ONE ENTRY ONE


18 August 2014 5.00 PM

I had my first Social Psychology lecture today. The lecturer, Mr. Shankar taught us

about confirmation bias. I didn't really understand what confirmation bias was until i did

some research online.I understood and started to think how confirmation bias exactly took

place in my life.

When i was small, before my sister was born, i thought that my life was wonderful.

With all the caring and love i could get. My mother gave extra love to me, accompanied

and stayed by my side when i was sick. However, after my sister was born, i started to be

alone. When i was sick, i find medicine by myself, never thought of telling my mother,

thinking that she will know that i am sick. Unfortunately, she didn’t. I felt very sad. On the

other hand, when my sister was sick, she stood by her side, fed her all the medicine and

food.

I know my parents thought i was old enough and independent enough to stand by

myself. But i was still a kid. I didn't know much about getting all the medicine or anything

by myself. I always thought that my parents were much more bias to my sister more than

me. I always thought that they loved my sister more than me.

From what i was taught, i understood that i always thought that my parents had

confirmation bias towards me and my sister. However, i learnt to think maturely and more

independently. When i grow older, only i knew that they wanted me to grow up, instead of

spoon-feeding me. When i grow older, i learned that if they continue to spoon-feed me, i

will never grow up.


JOURNAL ONE ENTRY TWO


21 August 2014 8.00 PM

I called my cousin just now. We talked a lot. He told me that one of his friend was

addicted to cigarette. I asked him, how could this happen and he told me that his friend’s

family is a bit complicated.

He told me that the parent of his friend had divorced.The father had another woman

outside, and was the main cause to their divorce.Child custody is normally granted to the

mother. However, his father won the lawsuit and the child had no choice but to follow the

father because his mother doesn’t have any job or stable income to raise the child.

The child stayed with the step-mother at home everyday while the father went to

work and will be home very late. The step-mother had very bad habits. She smoked and

even gambled.The child then followed the step-mother footstep, causing the child to

smoke and gamble.He thought that smoking was a very good habit as no one stopped him

or tell him that smoking is bad.

Before i hung up the phone, i advise my cousin about the effect of smoking. He say

that he understood and promised me that he will never smoke. I flashed back to what Mr.

Shankar taught and understood that was one of the example for social learning

perspective.


JOURNAL TWO ENTRY ONE



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26 August 2014 1.00 AM

We were having a campfire at the hostel that night and said about our experiences

and what made us motivated. It was my turn and i thought of saying about my school

results.

During UPSR, i was too stubborn to listen to my mother in taking tuition for science.

I told her that i believe i can score in science. She trusted me and i didn’t went to any

tuition for science. Turned out i got 4A and 1B, and that B was science. She was

disappointed with me and scolded me for getting bad results. I was so disappointed with

my results and with my mother. She didn’t even consult me but keep on scolding me for

getting bad result.

After UPSR, it was PMR. She had high expectation on me too. Thinking that i

would score all 7A’s. However, i failed her again. I only managed to score 3A’s and 4B.

The 3A’s were English, Mathematics and surprisingly, Science. She gave up on me.

But i didn’t. I still continues doing my studies and tuition to improve my results. I was very

tired for the two years as i tuition non-stop. She didn’t say anything.

I knew my malay sucks, i took class in two totally different genre class. My parents

challenged me. My mother said, if i could score in SPM, she will give me money to travel

to Korea. While my father said that he will buy me a laptop. I accepted their challenge. I

scored 7A’s in my trial. However, that doesn’t means that i am good enough. I continued

studying and studying, and i scored with flying color. I scored 2A+, 7A’s and 1A-. My


parents did as they promised. My father bought a laptop for me, my mother changed the

trade ticket to a DSLR camera for me.

I always thought that they gave me really good motivation despite they seem to

gave up on me.


JOURNAL TWO ENTRY TWO



ARCHITECT VS POLICE

4 September 2014 8.45 PM

Before we finished our secondary education, we were always asked what is our

occupation. I had always dreamed of becoming a police since i was young. Reasons?

My reasons are very easy. To achieve 0 crime rate country.

I was very eager when it comes to running or marathon. I always joined this

marathon and that running competition as i always thought to be a good police officer,

stamina is very important.

Until one day, i went to Singapore and saw many fascinating building. I was 100%

attracted to it. I did research on what architect does and was really inspired by a quote

said by Harry Seidler.” Architecture is not an inspirational business, it’s a rational

procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that’s all”

This quotation made me felt inspired and was wondering should i choose

architecture or to be a police. My parents recommended me to architecture because they

knew i enjoyed drawing, designing and doing handcrafts. Hence, i chose to study in

architecture so that i can design buildings that bring improvement to the country as well as

inspirational building to the peoples.


JOURNAL THREE ENTRY ONE


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I was browsing through all the lecture notes and found out operant conditioning.

Operant conditioning was using reinforcement or punishment to strengthen or weaken a

particular behaviour.

I remembered how lazy i was when i was in my primary school. I didn’t skip any

classes but i keep on “forgetting’ to do my homework. But the truth is, i didn't forget to do

any homework, in fact thinking that myself was too good. My teacher kept on tolerating me

and giving me chance to do my homework. However, i was really lazy to think and do any

work.

Until one day, my teacher couldn’t tolerate me anymore and called my mother. My

mother was so angry and think that i embarrassed her. When we reach home, she started

scolding me and giving all the punishment i should be given. I couldn’t go out and play for

one month. I need to go to tuition after school everyday. The teachers at the tuition centre

were so fierce. Every one were scare of them.

I had no choice but to obey them. I did and hand in all my homework in time. My

school teacher was satisfied with my results and praised me for being a good kid. She

called my mother and told her about all my improvement. Since that day, i don’t need to go

to tuition centre anymore. I am given freedom to do my work in the house by myself. I can

even go out to play only after i had accomplished my homework.


JOURNAL THREE ENTRY TWO



‘A chip of an old block’. I think this idiom is very meaningful as it really reflects the

life of a child. Children learn things very fast and even perform them well. I had seen

families from all walk of lives.

I had this memory inside my head and it was there for a very long time. I forget

when was it, This child was scolding all sorts of bad words. It was deep down in my brain

because it was really shocking to hear a child saying bad words like that.

When i heard how his parents talk, i knew what happened. The parents had been a

bad influence to the kid. I bet the parents must had said all those bad and dirty words

everyday in the house and most importantly, in front of the kid. The kid had no-manners

and ill-tempered.

Besides that, while we were eating, i heard the parents scolding the child “ can u

stop playing your phone and come to have your dinner?”

The child answered back “ You also playing ma! Why you can play i cannot play?”

What i was thinking was, how can a parent expect a child to do something when the

parent themselves didn’t even do the right thing?

Hence, i thought that good education since young is very important and i think this

is due to observational learning in psychology.


JOURNAL FOUR ENTRY ONE


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23 October 2014 12.00 AM

It was Deepavali, a festival celebrated by the indians. I still remember since small,

my friends were taught that those with dark coloured skins are dangerous. I thought the

same until i knew my friends,

My friends are dark coloured skin.However, they are the nicest person i had ever

met. They are even more friendly than those who shared the same skin colour as me. My

friends always lend a hand when i need help. They were always there by my side, in case

i need their help.

Since small, if we ever saw any dark coloured skin human, automatically we will

avoid them. It’s like we already had a confirmation bias and schemas for them.

However, i always thought that they are human too. They have their rights too. We should

respect them.

We should’t be racist. Although our skin colours are different, we had the same

blood colour. We are all humans. We should be good to one another. If we don’t , who

will?


JOURNAL FOUR ENTRY TWO


4 November 2014 3.30 PM

I think i might be a little emotional sometimes. When i was in a bad mood, i don’t

have the feel to talk, to joke and to do anything. When i am angry, i am not happy with

anything. However, i understand that i am not the only one that are emotional. My friends

do too!

I still remember that we were discussing about what to use for our assignment.

Seems like my friend had a bad day that day. I showed a few good idea but they were

rejected. I think t’s okay, maybe that idea is not god enough.

Then, i showed the idea of doing the Eiffel Tower from Paris, which shows the level

of construction. She rejected either. We sat and talked. We took a break and when to have

a walk around.

We went to my friend’s room and chill. My friend saw that we were very stressed for

being not able to think out of good idea. She jokes around finally that friend of me started

to become happy. She was more cheerful than before and not that emotional anymore.

The other friend of mine then started to help us give idea. She gave the same idea,

Eiffel Tower.My friend said that the idea was great. Although i was a little bit angry, but i

thought that sometimes, when someone is emotional or angry, she feels negative to

everything around it. I think this is the so called moods and emotions of human beings.


JOURNAL FIVE ENTRY ONE



I think people in the society nowadays are very selfish, which are known as egoistic

model. We had a design exhibition today. From all the exhibition, it was already time you

can differentiate who are the true ones, who are the fake ones.

Before submission, my friend and i were discussing about the final model that we

are not satisfied with. Both of us were thinking, how can we come up with this model.

When did we discussed about this. We talked and found out that actually the other two

member had actually discussed before us. However, we were not informed.

I called one of them who was not with us that time. No one answered the call. My

friend and i had no choice. We pulled everything out and redo everything. We only had 4

more hours before submission. With the limit of 4 hours, we buckle up and do everything

as fast as we can.

Finally, we managed to finish the final product. We brought all of our models to the

gallery, waiting to be showed and presented. My friend called me and scolded me straight

away for not asking their permission in changing the model.

I called. No one answer. So, whose fault was that?


JOURNAL FIVE ENTRY TWO



I was thinking what made the people nowadays to give help to someone

they don’t know. This might be a culture of some peoples in that specific place. This is

because i knew people nowadays will not give out help simply because they care about

themselves first.

I still remembered an accident which happened in front of a restaurant. The

accident was already there before i reached the accident. I have no idea how the accident

happened. The people around was taking photo instead of helping. I couldn’t reach

because it was too far away from me, with a big water damp in between.

A young man, come down of his car and started to give help. He pulled the victims

out of the broken car and moved them into his car so that he can drive the victims to the

nearest hospital. He couldn’t do that alone and another stranger came in to help, following

the third and the forth.

In psychology, i understand that this is known as modelling, which is used when we

observe other people, behave prosaically, and we are more likely to do the same. It will

be good if all the peoples around the world do this too.


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