Final Report

FOUNDATION IN NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY [PSYC 0103]

FINAL PROJECT REPORT

GROUP MEMBERS:

ANGELA WEE KAH MAN 0322970

SEOW KOJI TAKEHIRA 0320816

LEE LIN HUI 0322797

SAW E SEAN 0322003

SARA WEE 0322469

GROUP/SESSION: MONDAY, 10am to 12am

LECTURER: MR SHANKAR

SUBMISSION DATE: 7th DECEMBER 2015

Contents

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1. Acknowledgement..............................................................................................................3

2. Introduction.........................................................................................................................4

3. Method................................................................................................................................5

4. Discussion...........................................................................................................................6

5. Appendix...........................................................................................................................13

6. References.........................................................................................................................14

1. Acknowledgement

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We would like to acknowledge the effort of everyone involved in making this project. Their

effort, knowledge and patience has been crucial for this assignment. Without them, it might

be impossible to successfully complete this final project.

We would like to thank our psychology lecturer, Mr Shankar, for all of his effort in preparing

lectures and guidance given.

We would also like to thank our groupmates, actors, cameraman, editors, and scriptwriters for

their part in this project. We thank them for their sacrifices and commitments made for this

project.

2. Introduction

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In a group of 5 to 6 students, we are required to conduct a social psychology conceptual video

clip and required to do a presentation which implemented at least 5 concepts from different

chapters. This assignment aims to allow students to recognize and identify the connections

among concepts and perspectives within psychology and other theory. Furthermore, this

project taught us to apply the concepts that we were taught during our lectures and discussed

in class.

Several concepts that are applied in the story and story is demonstrated and acted by group

members and some other friends. Before we got started for filming, we discussed among our

group members to create a storyline and the script. The concepts that we have applied in the

video are stereotype, halo effect, social loafing, post decision dissonance and counterfactual

thinking.

Throughout this assignment, we are able to understand more about the concepts in social

context.

3. Method

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Apparatus/Material Used:

DSLR Camera was used to film the clip.

Other props like books, stationeries, files were also used in this video.

Procedure:

1. 30th November 2015. First meeting with all of the group members. During the

meeting, we discussed about the storyline and the concepts to be used. The meeting

ended after we have discussed the storyline.

2. 1st December 2015. The final storyline and scripts were done. Each members in the

group were assigned to play different roles to the video.

3. 2nd December 2015. All members were presented were presented to make the video

clip. After recording all of the scenes of the video clip, our group is divided into three

groups to responsible the video editing, the report and the presentation slides.

4. 5th December 2015. Second meeting. All group members meet up to finalize the

video and presentation.

4. Discussion

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As a group, all members discussed about the storyline, which need to include five different

social psychology concepts to present in the video.

4.1 Storyline

One day in a classroom where it was filled with students, a lecturer has called his student to

form a group of 4 to complete an assignment. Koji had initially brought up a plan to group again with

his past group mates, Sara and Sean. However, they were lacking one member as this assignment

requires a group of 4, where Prem came in and asked to join Koji’s group. Koji declined Prem’s offer,

because in fact he was an international student and assumed that he wont be able to do very well as

well as the other member. (Stereotyping) On the other hand, Koji invited Angela as a group member

as she looked hardworking and nice, judging by how she looks and how she wears. (Halo Effect).

Subsequently, Koji had tried to arrange a group discussion with all of his group members, but only

Angela didn’t attended the meeting without any reasons. Sara and Sean has told Koji that Angela is

not as good as how he thinks and told him that he had made a bad choice instead of choosing Prem.

Eventually, while Sara, Sean and Koji was walking down the hall, they bump into Lin Hui and

questioned how is Prem doing in their group. As hearing what Lin Hui describes about Prem, Koji felt

regretful but to try pulling down Prem’s image by warning Lin Hui, but it didn’t worked out. (Post

Decision Dissonance) At the same time, she also mentioned how bad Angela worked out previously

in their work while doing nothing at all. (Social Loafing)

In short before the submission day, Koji, Sara, Sean and Angela had finally gathered to rushed their

work, but Angela didn’t care much and do her own things instead of helping others. A week later after

the submission, the results were out where everyone gotten a C+ instead of failing the assignment.

Koji was surprised and in fact he told Sara and Sean that at least they all didn’t failed.(Counter

Factual Thinking)

4.2 Script

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Character List:

Lecturer – Jean

Prem – Prem

K – Koji

S – Sara

Sean – Sean

A – Angela

LH – Lin Hui

Scene 1

Noisy class

Lecturer tries to get attention of whole classroom *claps hands*

(Silent class)

Lecturer: I am going to give you guys your new assignment. Please form groups of 4 and give me the name list by today. Check your e-mails for the brief. Thank you. Class Dismissed.

Lecturer leaves

(Noisy class)

Koji, Sean and Sara sitting next to each other

Koji: hey, let’s just group up together like last time.

Sean: sure thing

Sara: but we need a fourth member.

(Koji looks around)

Prem walks up to Koji and Sara

Prem: Hi guys, can I join you guys for this assignment?7

Koji: Sorry, our group’s full.

(Prem looks sad and confused, walks away)

Sean: hey, we needed a fourth member. Why did you say that?

S: why don’t you want to group up with him?

K: I don’t really like working with international kids, they never work well. (Chapter 7 Stereotype- racism)

(Koji walks to Angela)

K: hi Angela, do you want to group up with Sara and I for the assignment?

Angela: (listening to music, does not notice Koji) um. Yeah. Whatever. But I have stuff to do. I’ll get back to you later? (Smiles)

K: yeah, sure. No problem. I’ll whatsapp you. Bye.

A: yeah, bye!

K and S

S: so why did you pick Angela as a group mate?

K: she’s looks hardworking. I mean, look, she’s always dressed nicely etc (halo effect Chap 4)

S: you don’t even hang out with her. So she just “looks” hardworking?

K: yeah, i guess. She seems like such a nice person.

Sean: are you working with her because you think she’s pretty….

Koji: no! She just seems like she knows what she’s doing

S: hm.. Okay. Let’s just go for lunch.

K and S leave class

Scene 28

K on whatsapp:

Guys, remember our meeting later at 3!

(Sara faces Koji, looks worried)

S: are you sure Angela will come for the meeting? She didn’t show up for today’s class.

Sean: … I told you so

K: why are you worrying? She isn’t that kind of person

S: I hope you’re right about this one

(Meeting room) Koji, Sean and Sara

*the number you have dialed is not available*…

S: Let’s just start without her

K: yeah okay (takes out books etc)

Scene 3

K, Sean and Sara are walking along the hallway and bump into Lin Hui

LH: hey guys. How’s everything going?

S: Haih. Angela didn’t come for out meeting. We’ve been working so hard just to make up for it.

LH: maybe she just thinks you guys can handle the work without her. The last time I worked with her, she didn’t do much work for the group project, but we all got the same grade. (Social loafing chap 1)

Sean: I heard you have Prem in your group. The new international student? How is he?

LH: He’s actually very hardworking! I’m really glad to have him in my group.

K: Yeah well. He might be hardworking, but he will also turn up late for meetings. You have to be aware of that (post decision dissonance chap 5)

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LH: No, not really. Anyway, i have to go hand in my assignment. See you soon!

Everyone: bye!

Scene 4

Day before submission: Koji, Sean and Sara work hard, books everywhere. Angela playing with her phone, earphones plugged in.

Scene 5:

After submission

K, Sean and Sara are sitting at a table

Sean: I heard that our results are out

K: Wait, I have my laptop. Let me check (Opens laptop)

Sara: I don’t think we did that well.

Koji: don’t worry about it, I think we all did very well (c+ result)

K: well…. We passed! At least it wasn’t a fail. (Counterfactual thinking chap 3)

Sean and Sara look angry and disappointed.

End

4.3 Concepts

1. Scene 1 - Stereotyping10

Concept description: Stereotypes are beliefs about people based on their membership in a

particular group. Stereotypes can be positive, negative, or neutral. Stereotypes based on

gender, ethnicity, or occupation are common in many societies. For Examples, People may

stereotype women as nurturing or used car salespeople as dishonest.

Scene description: Koji did not want to group up with Prem by saying that his group is full

because Prem is an international student .Koji has a stereotype of that all international student

did not work well when come to their assignment.

2. Scene 1 - The Halo Effect

Concept description: Halo effect is a cognitive bias in which an observer's overall impression

of a person, company, brand, or product influences the observer's feelings and thoughts about

that entity's character or properties. It was named by psychologist Edward Thorndike in

reference to a person being perceived as having a halo.

Scene description: Koji rather picked Angela over Prem as the fourth member of their group

because he thought that Angela looks attractive and smart hence he assumes that Angela can

do work better. But Angela was actually a lazy person, she often absent to the meetings and

contribute less in the group work.

3. Scene 3 - Social Loafing

Concept description: In the social psychology of groups, social loafing is the phenomenon of

people exerting less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when they work

alone.

Scene description: Based on Linhui experienced, she had once group up with Angela. She

said that Angela did not really contribute in group project because Angela thought that when

come to group work , other members will handle it as well, so their grade end up with a bad

result.

4. Scene 4 - Post decision dissonance 11

Concept description: Is the “Sour grapes". For example, when we have to reject one

appealing choice in favor of another, we will devalue the option not selected. After you chose

which college to attend, did you start to find flaws with the ones you rejected (or that rejected

you)?

Scene description : After listening to Linhui commented on Prem , Koji still did not believe

what Linhui said and keep on defend him stereotype towards Prem by saying that although

Prem did work well in group work but sometimes Prem could be late to the meetings too, he

then told Linhui to aware of this.

5. Scene 5 - Counterfactual Thinking

Concept description: Counterfactual thinking is a concept in psychology that involves the

human tendency to create possible alternatives to life events that have already occurred;

something that is contrary to what actually happened. Counterfactual thinking is exactly as it

states: "counter to the facts." These thoughts consist of the "What if?" and the "If I had

only..." that occur when thinking of how things could have turned out differently.

Counterfactual thoughts are things that could never possibly happen in reality, because they

solely pertain to events that have occurred in the past.

Scene description: After all the hardwork they have done, the result is finally out. But

unfortunately, Koji’s group still get a C for their project. But, Koji did not feel sad or

disappointed to the grade but he feel lucky because at least they passed their project. This

make Sean and Sara feel disappoint to him and they did not want to group up with him

anymore for the coming project.

5. Appendix

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6. References

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1. Simply Psychology. (n.d.). Retrieved December 3, 2015, from

http://www.simplypsychology.org/katz-braly.html

2. What Is a Stereotype? (n.d.). Retrieved December 4, 2015, from

http://racerelations.about.com/od/understandingrac1/g/WhatIsaStereotype.htm

3. FNBE 0814 E-portfolio by Lee Ning. (n.d.). Retrieved December 4, 2015, from

http://leening960701.wix.com/fnbe0814#!spsycho-video/cvnp

4. FNBE E-PORTFOLIO: PSY❥PJ03. (n.d.). Retrieved December 4, 2015, from

http://fnbe0814donten-ki.blogspot.my/2015/06/psypj03.html

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