Psycho video report

ASSIGNMENT 3 VIDEO PRESENTATION REPORT 2014

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN FOUNDATION IN NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT (FNBE)

GROUP MEMBERS:

TEE SIN YI (0315689)LEONG CHEE MUN (0316256)

HAZIM BIN ABDUL AZIZ (0315773)HONG SANG WON (0314661)

SUBJECT:

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (PSYC0103)

ASSIGNMENT:

ASSIGNMENT 3 VIDEO PRESENTATION

LECTURER:

MR. SHANKAR

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Introduction

In order to complete this psychology video assignment, we were distributed into a group of four

members who come from different stream which are architecture and quantity surveyor.

For this assignment, we are required to produce a minimum 5 minute video based on social

psychology concept which we learnt in lecture class. Besides, we were also required to write a report for

this video and present it in class. This project allowed us to recognize and identify the connections among

concepts and perspective within psychology. In addition, we can strengthen our understanding skill towards

these concepts.

Of course, we had tried to compromise with each other during this whole process. We collaborated to

become a cooperative team. We might not be the best one but we do enjoy the process. We appreciated the

chance given by this assignment which made us realize psychology is an interesting stuff.

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Summary of the video clip

Scene 1

Venue: ARENA Food court

Actors/ Actresses: Joanne as Joanne

Hazim as Hazim

Moon as Moon

Brian as Brian

One day, Joanne and Hazim were waiting in ARENA food court. The reason that why they were

there because Joanne wanted to introduce her friends to Hazim who were Moon and Brian. Soon, Moon and

Brian were there to meet them. Brian had greeted Joanne and Hazim passionately but Moon responded

coolly. Thus, four of them had a short introduction and small talk before they decided what to eat. Brian

answered Hazim’s questions willingly. Nevertheless, Moon just nodded and ignored Hazim’s talk. Thus,

Hazim opined that Brian was a positive person but Moon was a negative person.

Scene 2

Venue: Classroom

Actors/ Actresses: Joanne as Joanne

Hazim as Hazim

Moon as Moon

Brian as Mr. Brian, the lecturer

After having their lunch, they were going to attend Mr. Brian’s class who was one of their lecturers.

As soon as Mr.Brian introduced what they were going to learn today, he asked Hazim a question. However,

Hazim could not answer the question. Moon who looked cool from her appearance wanted to help but she

did not know the answer so she felt sorry for Hazim. Nonetheless, Joanne who knew the answer thought

that Moon would help him so she stayed silence. Mr.Brian thought that anyone who knew the answer

should have helped Hazim. Unfortunately, there were not. At the end, Mr.Brian requested Hazim to let him

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know the answer tomorrow. So, Hazim sought for consultation from Joanne and Moon after class. Finally,

Joanne helped him out.

Scene 3

Venue: Lakeside’s recreation place

Actors/ Actresses: Joanne as Joanne

Hazim as Hazim

Moon as Moon

Brian as the black guy

After their class, Moon, Joanne and Hazim were chit-chatting beside the lakeside. While they were

chatting, a black guy passed by. Brian started to gossip about him. Brian opined that people with darker skin

so called black guy were not good people. He thought that they would do something bad which could be

fatality. Moon and Joanne opined the same.

The next day, Hazim saw the black guy were on the headline due to his misdemeanors. His thought

and prediction were right.

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Concepts

There are five concepts used in our video clip which are attitude, prosocial behavior, stereotype,

self-fulfilling, and lastly the halo effect.

“ATTITUDE”

Attitude is an evaluation of ideas, events, objects or people. Within the concept of attitude there are

three components to be represented which are affective, behavioral and cognitive and we call this ABC

model of attitude. We can find these three models of attitudes in our video clip. As Hazim sat beside Moon,

Moon thinks that he is not smart (affective) so she tries avoiding him when he asks some questions

(behavior). Moreover, she believes that Hazim is not a good student and therefore she keeps the distance

with Hazim apart whenever she meets him.

“PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR”

Prosocial behavior is an action designed to benefit another person or group by sharing, helping and

more. For instance, in the video when the lecturer asked a question to Hazim based on the lecture he gave,

Hazim finds hard to answer his question because he couldn’t really understand the lecture he has given.

However, as Hazim struggled to answer the question the other classmates were kept very quiet and silence

because they think that one of them will help Hazim to answer but unfortunately no one did. After class,

Joanne decides her mind to help him how to answer the question (prosocial behavior). This is how

prosocial behavior works in a daily life.

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“STEREOTYPE”

Stereotype can be defined as beliefs about particular types of individuals. Generally, stereotypes are

assumptions that people make about the features of particular members of a certain group usually based on

an image about what individuals in that group are like. From our video clip for example, the three students

who were sitting at the lake saw a black African passing by, and the first thing that comes to their mind was

he is dangerous because he is black. The stereotype here is all black Africans are dangerous and should

avoid them in order to be safe.

“SELF FULFILLING”

Self-fulfilling prophecy can be defined as the positive or negative expectation on a typical situation

or event that affects an individual behavior that it causes the expectation to come true. For example from the

clip when the people saw a black African passing by, our stereotype toward him they expect that he is a

criminal for stealing, kidnapping and murdering. However, the black African was on a newspaper the next

day due to kidnapping and rapping the innocent school girl at night the other day. So he was arrested by the

police department and sentenced to jail. This is the concept of self-fulfilling prophecy that as we expect

something it will really come true.

“THE HALO EFFECT”

The halo effect is the overall impression of us that influences how we feel and think about his or her

character or personality. For instance in the video, we had two new friends Brian and Moon joined in for

lunch at the cafeteria and one of them who was Brian was very hyper, smiles and laughs a lot and we feel

and think about him as a positive person however on the other hand Moon was a kind of a person who is

very moody, doesn’t smile much and very quiet therefore we feel and think about her as a negative person

due to these facts shown. This is the Halo Effect where we can see others whether they are good or not by

the impressions they give to us.

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Conclusion

In conclusion, we learnt that how we should apply these concepts in real life. Besides, we had a

chance to cast and produce our own video. Sang Won is the only architecture student in our group. At first,

we misunderstood Mr. Shankar’s intention. We opined that it was hard to work together as we were having

a different schedule. Ultimately, we comprehended why Mr. Shankar would have this plan. We learnt to be

disciplined and not to procrastinate our work as we could hardly have free time to meet and complete this

project.

Nonetheless, we do not feel awkward anymore but in turn, we did build up a good relationship with

each other. Although we met some trials and tribulations, we still tolerate with each other and give in. We

tried something new which is video editing. Honestly, none of us were really into video editing stuff but we

grasped this golden opportunity to gain another skill.

We enjoyed our assignment so much that we put our best foot forward. Furthermore, we

acknowledged that actually every incident could have at least one concept in it. Slowly, these theoretical

concepts merged into our lives just like that. Also, we had understood how actually concepts and reality

come together in our daily life.

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References

1. Kendra,C. (-).What Is the Halo Effect?. Retrieved from

http://psychology.about.com/od/socialpsychology/f/halo-effect.htm

2. Saul, M. (2009). Attitudes and Behavior. Retrieved from

http://www.simplypsychology.org/attitudes.html

3. Luke. (2012, January). Why I Think Class Streaming Is Bad. Retrieved from

http://www.lukeyishandsome.com/2012/01/why-i-think-class-streaming-is-bad.html

4. Aaron, O.(-). Breaking The Cycles Changing Our Belief. Retrieved from

https://socialanxietyinstitute.org/self-fulfilling-prophecy-breaking-cycle

5. Mandy, L. (2011, November). Attitude: Do I have one?. Retrieved from

http://blog.soton.ac.uk/comp6044/2011/11/23/attitudes-do-i-have-one/

6. Lecture slide no.5 “Attitudes: Making Evaluations About The World”

7. Lecture slide no.7 “Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination: Causes and Consequences”

8. Lecture slide no.8 “Prosocial Behavior: Why We Help, and Why We Don’t”

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Appendices

“Attitude”

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“Prosocial Behavior”

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“Stereotype”

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“Self-Fulfilling”

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“The Halo Effect”

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