John’s Dream

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Janson Chen 0323047Wong Yun Teng 0323454Lee Xin Ying 0322432Teoh Zhe Khai 0322905

Social Psychology Comic Strip

SynopsisThis comic is about a boy call John who has a big dream. He is a short and weak

boy, but he wants to become strong. He desires to be a professional basketball player. John started to chase his dream from joined the basketball team in his school.

The team leader, Brian who is a nice person, he accepted the request of John although John’s stamina was not that good. However, other team members thought that John had not enough qualification to join their team.

When the team was training for the match, other team members will always bully John when Brian was not around the basketball court. John felt upset and sad, he cried when he came back home. He told his father he had the idea of gave up because he thought that he can not do well in sport. John’s father consoled and told him about his story when he was young. After that, John decided and started to train himself become stronger.

He trained himself in gymnasium everyday after school and continued the training of the basketball team. When he saw someone was better than him, he will urge himself to put more effort. During the match day, before the match was on, John told himself he can do it well and he will help his team to get the champion. He used all his strength and stamina in this match and finally, his team get the champion.

5 Concepts• Stereotype

• Discrimination

• Persuasion

• Social Facilitation

• Self – fulfilling Prophecy

StereotypeA stereotype is a fixed, over generalized belief about a particular group or class of people.

Some of the muscular team members think that John has not qualification to join their team and do not want to be his friend. This is because they assumed that this puny boy tends to be a weaker and will not give them any benefit in the match after he joined their team.

DiscriminationDiscrimination is the behaviour or actions, usually negative, towards an individual or group of people, especially on the basis of sex, race, physical appearance or social class.

When the basketball team was training for the match, other team members will always bully John when the team leader, Brian was not around the basketball court.

PersuasionA symbolic process in which communicators try to convince others to change their attitudes or behaviours regarding an issue through the transmission of a message in an atmosphere of free choice.

John felt upset and sad because other team members always bully him. He cried when he came back home and told his father he had the idea of gave up because he thought that he can not do well in sport and he can’t assimilate into the team. John’s father consoled and told him about his story when he was young. After that, John decided and started to train himself become stronger.

Social FacilitationSocial facilitation is the tendency for people to do perform differently when in the presence of others than when alone. Compared to their performance when alone, when in the presence of others, they tend to perform better on simple or well-rehearsed tasks and worse on complex or new ones.

He trained himself in gymnasium everyday after school and continued the training of the basketball team. When he saw someone was better than him, he urged himself to put more effort.

Self-fulfilling ProphecyA self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behaviour.

During the match day, before the match was on, John told himself he can do it well and he will help his team to get the champion. He used all his strength and stamina in this match and finally, his team get the champion.