Name: CHEW UNG HENG

ID: 0315397

Course: Foundation In Natural ad Built Environment

Assignment: Journal

Lecturer: Pang Chia Yee

Submission Date: 20/11/13

Journal 1

lecture we discuss about self-concept. Firstly, our lecturer let us watch a musical

video that related to self-concept, the lyric is quite interesting for me and I fall in love

that song. Then, lecture asked us to write sentences start with “I am…” and I had lot

of ideas on it and I can’t stop writing. Among the ideas I wrote, I said “I am Chinese”

as we had asked to choose one of our ideas and speak it out and I found it is quite

funny. Then, we discussed about the topic of self-knowledge that divided into three

sub-topics, explaining our behaviour, predicting our behaviour and predicting our

behaviour. People have mispredicted the feeling they would have after meet some

kinds of situation. Through this topic, we had been asked some questions and the

behaviour for us to solve the problems we meet and examples that always happen

among us. Next, we learnt about Self-serving Bias which is the one of social

psychology’s most provocative yet firmly established conclusion concerns the

potency of self-serving bias. People always tend to attribute the success to their ability

but not for failure to others external factors. People always shrink their responsibility

and admit their false by giving a lot of reasons when we did something wrong. People

may also predict how much they contribute more than other people but in fact they

have the same contribution. Besides, people also serve their self-image by seeing their

talents and moral behaviours as relatively unusual. For the last sub-topic, we learnt on

the power of positive thinking. In this topic, lecture asked us to think positively while

treating any matter so that we can live healthier and happier in our daily life. To stay

healthier, lecture also suggested Holden’s formula by Robbert Holden for us. Finally,

we totally enjoyed this lecturer and we knew various ways in solving our problems so

that we won’t step the wrong way.

Journal 2

Before we started our class today, we had given an introduction of the assignments

that have to done for this semester. Basically, we will have few assignments to do

which is the research proposal, Journal assignments, Quizzes and Research &

Presentation. Then, we had been divided into groups for the final project which

occupy higher marks among other assignments. For the first topic we discuss is the

research methods, we had some briefing the definition of the researches. Basically, it

means the tools or technique we use to obtain accurate information about feelings,

thought and etc. After that we had given a task, we had answer few questions to prove

whether you are a high “opener” or not. After collected my data, I got high marks and

I’m proud of myself. Then, we continue our topic by differentiate the differences

between qualitative and quantitative in research method which qualitative must

include scale while qualitative include description and picture. We had also learnt the

scientific investigation which can be used while doing a research by following the

sequences. We also got to know some techniques of data collection such as, direct

observation, interview, archival records and etc. Then, we move on to statistics in

psychology to learn the way to calculate the data collected from the survey. Next, we

move on to graphical representative of data that taught us about the ways to do bar

graph or line graph based on the data we collected from the survey. Lastly, we learn

about the Reliability vs. Validity and ethics in phycology which can be used while

doing for our research proposal and report. Through this class, we gain knowledge

and methods that can used while doing our research and report and it is no doubt that I

had attended an very important lecturer.

Journal 3

The topic of psychology class today is vision. At the first, lecturer told us there just

little things that related to psychology and it could be very interesting lecture for us to

learn. Through this lecturer, we had learnt about the effect of colors which different

colors making people may have different kind of feelings. There are also some

arguments between the students as they disagreed the meanings that had stated in the

slide by having their own feelings with different colors and I just realise by staying in

a space with specific type color can also make a person having different kinds of

feelings and expressions. For instance, yellow painting of a kitchen increases

metabolism, brightness of room and gives us energy. Red is the color that always give

attention to the people so it is no doubt that it becomes most popular color used for

logos, signs, advertisements and etc. Then is my favourite part along this lecture

which is the visual system and visual illusion. Along this part, we has going through

some pictures and it makes me so confuse while I observing these pictures. Those

pictures make us failure to see a visible object as we focused at the other way and

some of us take quite long times to get the answers. Besides, we had also given a

video to observe n calculate the numbers of the ball throwing by the people who

wearing the white T-shirt. In this task, I had success to find out the gorilla that pass

through them and actually it quite obvious for me. Finally, I had gained a lot of

knowledge and information which may help me for my architecture course to use the

proper color according to the purpose of the space use.