PSYCHO-SLIDES.pptx

Plot• David joined his school swimming team about 2 years ago. • One day, he was told to represent his school to take part in a swimming

competition. He will face a strong competitor, Brandon whom always win in swimming competitions. For the upcoming competition, everyone supposes Brandon will definitely win.

• David is getting worried that he couldn’t win. Despite all the doubts he got from outsiders, his parents encouraged him, said they will get him anything he wants if he won.

• His father gets him a coach. The coach guided and helped him selflessly. He taught him skills and guided him with correct posture of swimming. His coach helped him a lot and he learned from him as well.

• The training experiences gave him confidence. During competition, he performed better than he usually did and finally, he got champion. His family and friends were so proud of him.

• After that, he started to become popular in his school. Thus it makes a part of the students there started to adore him even when they don’t really know him and they suppose that he is clever too.

• Heuristics are simple, efficient rules, learned or hard-coded by evolutionary processes, that have been proposed to explain how people make decisions, come to judgments, and solve problems typically when facing complex problems or incomplete information.

- David has a strong competitor, Brandon, whom always win in swimming competitions. For the upcoming competition,

everyone supposes Brandon will definitely win.

• Extrinsic motivations are rewards for showing the desired behaviour, and the threat of punishment following misbehaviour.

- David is getting worried that he cannot win in the competition. Despite all the doubts he got from outsiders, his parents encouraged him, saying that they will get him

anything he wants if he won the competition.

–Altruistic Model

– Motivated by the desire to increase another’s welfare.

– When behaviors are done for selfless reasons.

- His father gets him a coach. The coach guided and helped him selflessly to ensure he will do well in his competition. However, his coach never expect anything in return.

• Social facilitation is the tendency for people to do better on simple tasks when in the presence of other people. This implies that, whenever people are being watched by others, they will do well on things that they are already good at doing.

- During competition, he performed better than he usually did. Finally, he got champion in the swimming competition.

• The 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.

- After that, he started to become popular in his school. Thus it makes a part of the students there started to adore him even when they don’t really know him and they suppose that he is

clever too.