GARNETTE DAYANG ROBERT

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FOUNDATION IN NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT

JOURNAL / PERSONAL REFLECTION 2

18 DECEMBER 2013

19 November 2013

In social psychology class we learn about Attitudes, the components and

theories of it. Attitudes are positive or negative evaluations of objects of thoughts.

There’s also 3 components that is cognitive, affective and behavioral. Attitudes and

Social Cognition addresses those domains of social behavior in which cognition plays

a major role, including the interface of cognition with overt behavior, affect, and

motivation. Learning is also parts of our attitudes, operant conditioning and

observational behavior. Operant conditioning is a form of learning in which response

come back to be in controlled by their consequences, and whereas observational

learning is when an organism’s responding is influenced by the observation of others

who are called models. There is also a basic process by Albert Bandura, that are

Attention, Retention, Reproduction, and Motivation.

10 December 2013

This week’s lecture was on about Conformity and group behavior. Basically,

conformity is a type of social influence involving a change in belief or behavior in

order to fit in with a group. This change is in response to real (involving the physical

presence of others) or imagined (involving the pressure of social norms /

expectations) group pressure. Conformity can also be simply defined as “yielding to

group pressures” (Crutchfield, 1955). Group pressure may take different forms, for

example bullying, persuasion, teasing, criticism etc.  Conformity is also known as

majority influence (or group pressure).The term conformity is often used to indicate

an agreement to the majority position, brought about either by a desire to ‘fit in’ or be

liked (normative) or because of a desire to be correct (informational), or simply to

conform to a social role (identification). – got it from

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

I have also learned a lot from the bystander effect, people seeing someone needing

help and in their mind they are thinking someone else will help them and that they

don’t need to help, in actual fact, we are that someone! We need to do something so

that others will also do it, as they say its likely for someone to do something when

they’re alone but with a group of people they’ll just ignore.

17 December 2013

Last few days, in social psychology class, I’ve learnt about attraction and close

relationships. There’s so many types of relationship, family relationship, love

relationship, friendship relationship, relatives relationship, ending intimate

relationship and so on. Proximity, Familiarity and Similarity are what increases liking

in us humans. Like proximity is nearness in place, time or order to love ones,

familiarity is considerable acquaintance with established friendship; intimacy. The

power of familiarity, the crucial variable that explains interpersonal attraction may

actually be familiarity. When research the participants actually rate the attractiveness

of faces, they prefer the faces that most resembled their own. Similarity also tends to

be so important in attraction. We tend to think people who are similar to us will also

like us, so we likely to initiate a relationship. And in the class discussion we were ask

to think what about arranged marriage and gay and lesbian marriage? I don’t agree

with any of those. So yea. But I’ve also learnt the difference between marriage and a

wedding is that weddings are ceremonies held for married couples, and as marriage

are couples signing away their happily ever after.