Social Psychology (PSY30203)  

Report   

School of Architecture, Building and Design 

Foundation in Natural and Built Environment  Session: Monday, 4 p.m. ­ 6 p.m.  Submission Date: 8th June 2015  Group members:   Terence Tan Peng Ong                        (0320275) Sim Chia Ting                                       (0320932) Boon Yi Chung                                     (0318300) Chow Kah Yien                                     (0320300) Nur Azreen Binti Samiu                        (0321370) 

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Content   

Title  Page Acknowledgement  3 

Introduction  4 

Method     a) Apparatus    b) Procedure 

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Discussion    ­ Concept & Definition    ­ Application & Analysis    ­ Conclusion 

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References   

Appendix   

  

 

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Acknowledgement 

First and foremost, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to our Social                           

Psychology lecturer, Mr. Shankar Thiruchelvam for his advice and guidance throughout                     

the semester. Without him, we will not be able to complete this assignment successfully. 

 

Next, many thanks to Terence Tan Peng Ong for being a responsible team leader by                             

dividing the work equally among us. Not to be forgotten, to the remaining members in                             

the group ­ Chow Kah Yien, Sim Chia Ting, Boon Yi Chung and Nur Azreen for their full                                   

cooperation, tolerance and most importantly to work as a team.  

 

Also, we would like to thank our friend, Daniel Tan for lending us his camera for us to                                   

shoot our video.  

 

Last but not least, we would like to thank everyone that gave us endless moral supports                               

and those who involved either directly or indirectly in doing and completing this                         

assignment. 

 

 

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Introduction   

In a group of five, this project requires us to do a 3­5 minutes video and applies 5                                   

different social psychology concepts that we have learnt throughout the semester. We                       

also need to do a report based on the short video and present the video during class.  

 

This group consists of five members, Terence Tan Peng Ong as the leader followed by                             

Sim Chia Ting, Boon Yi Chung, Chow Kah Yien and Nur Azreen. After having few                             

meetings, we decided to create a short video in a story form titled “The Black Hole“. The                                 

story is about a boy who doesn’t cooperate and work along very well with his group                               

members. The 5 concepts that we apply in the video are dispositional attribution,                         

unrealistic optimism, extrinsic motivation, discrimination, and aggression. 

 

 

 

 

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Method  

Apparatus / materials 

● Camera 

○ Canon EOS 550D 

○ Canon EOS 1100D 

○ Canon ef ­s 35­55mm, 

● Tripod stand  

● A4 paper 

● Stationery ( Artline pen , ball pens ) 

● Computer software 

○ Windows Movie Maker 

○ Camtasia Studio 8 

○ Windows Player  

● Soundtrack 

○ Super Mario Bros Official Theme Song 

○ Dr Dre feat Snoop Doggy Dogg Nuthin But a 'G' Thang Uncut & Dirty 

     

 

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Procedure 

First of all, after our 8 a.m. Social Psychology class, we had our first discussion                             

on week 14 which was on Monday evening, 5 p.m. but at that time, our main discussion                                 

was all about the comic. After we were done with our comic’s discussion, we started to                               

discuss about our video clip. First, we started to think of the 5 concepts of the video and                                   

since this was the first meeting, we roughly discussed about it and we came out with 8                                 

concepts which are altruistic model, confirmation bias, self­esteem, introspection,                 

dispositional attributions, extrinsic motivation, discrimination and aggression. After we                 

thought of these 8 concepts, our leader, Terence Tan Peng Ong wanted all of us to go                                 

back home and think about the story line that related to 5 out of the 8 concepts that we                                     

had selected during our discussion.  

At week 15, we started to discuss about our video story line after we had done                               

with our comic’s presentation slide and comic drawings. All of us came out with different                             

ideas of the story line, but in the end of our discussion, all of us had decided to use                                     

Terence Tan Peng Ong’s story line. The reason why we chose his story was because                             

his story was talking about the problem of group work which was faced in almost every                               

group. After all of us had decided the story line, our leader wanted us to go back and                                   

think about the story and enhance or make the story line much more better. Before                             

going back, we discussed which characters we wanted to play for the short video. We                             

decided to choose Nur Azreen as our lecturer, while Sim Chia Ting, Boon Yi Chung                             

and Chow Kah Yien as the students. While for our leader, Terence Tan, he selected                             

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himself as the arrogant student. We also finalised our 5 concepts which are                         

dispositional attribution, unrealistic optimism, extrinsic motivation, discrimination and               

aggression. 

After we had done our comic presentation, which was at week 16, we did a very                               

short meeting to discuss about when we were going to start the video shooting and                             

think of the location of the video shooting. Then, all of us agreed to meet on Wednesday                                 

morning and for our location, we chose E6.13 which is X­space and E4.10 which is a                               

normal classroom. On Wednesday, we followed our plan accordingly. At 10 a.m. sharp,                         

all of us wore normal T­shirt, and started shooting the video. We thought that we would                               

take around 6 hours to finish the video shooting but luckily we only took 3 hours, from                                 

10 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

Later on, the video was edited by Sim Chia Ting. He used Windows Movie                           

Maker, Camtasia Studio 8 and Windows Player to edit the video. He took 6 hours                             

editing the video since this is his first time editing a video. After the video was done and                                   

uploaded on Youtube, we divided the report and slide into several parts for each of us to                                 

do so that we could finish our assignment as fast as possible before the submission due                               

date. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Discussion  

a. Concept and Definition 

In our video, the concept that we portray are taken from our psychology lessons. We                             

incorporated 5 concepts and the main concepts that involved in our video are                         

dispositional attribution, unrealistic optimism, extrinsic motivation, discrimination and               

aggression.  

 

The storyline of our video is more likely related to our daily life experience in our                               

university life when we are in a group work assignment or project. As you can see from                                 

the video, Terence is an arrogant student. He thought that he was very smart and clever                               

than others. He did not want to teach Sim Chia Ting about the assignment when he                               

came and asked him about the assignment.  

 

During the next meeting, Boon as the leader of the group wanted to check the progress                               

of each member but Terence did not show his progress to Boon because he thought                             

that he could handle all the things by himself. So, all the group members except                             

Terence put extra effort to do the assignment and they managed to do very well on the                                 

day of the presentation. 

 

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The five concepts have already been portrayed and explained in the context of our                           

video as well as written analysis and presented through slides for further understanding.  

 

    

 

 

 

              

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Application and analysis Our video is a simple story and it contains five social psychology concepts in it. The                                 

pictures below show how the social psychology concepts are applied in the scenes and                           

the explanation of the scenes.  

 

1.Dispositional Attribution    

Scene Description : Boon, the leader of the group wanted to check the progress of the                               

group members. All the members showed their progresses except Terence. He did not                         

want to show his progress to Boon because he thought that he could handle the things                               

by himself.  

 

Explanation : Dispositional attribution means that a cause of an action is due to a                             

person’s internal characteristics. When we make dispositional attribution, we usually                   

infer that an event is due to a person’s internal factor. Internal attribution is defined as                               

the act of blaming on some type of factors that could be controlled by an individual for                                 

an event to happen. For example, Damson did well in a singing competition, everyone                           

gave good comments but the judge didn’t let him passed the audition. Therefore, we                           

can infer that the event is due to the judge’s internal characteristic. 

 

Application : This concept can be applied in this scene. The group was having a final                               

discussion for the presentation. Everyone supposed to show their progress to the                       

leader. However, Terence didn’t show his progress to Boon. This shows low consensus.                         

In addition, he always acted like a professional and looked down on his team. This                             

shows low distinctiveness. Terence is selfish and he refused to help his friend, Chia                           

Ting before. This also shows high consistency. These factors show us that, this event is                             

due to Terence’s internal factor. 

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2. Unrealistic Optimism  

Scene Description : Terence did not want to show his progress to Boon because he                             

thought he could handle it by himself. 

 

Explanation : Unrealistic optimism explains that an individual thinks that he is better                         

than others. For example, Damson thinks that he is better than other participants in                           

badminton competition. He skips all his training because he overconfident.  

 

Application : Terence thought that he was the best in the group so he wanted to                               

become the leader at first and didn’t cooperate with the rest of the group members for                               

their presentation.  

 

 

3. Extrinsic Motivation  

 Scene Description : Boon and his group members wanted to achieve good result for                           

their assignment so they put extra effort in doing the assignment. 

 

Explanation: Taking a certain action in response to external pressure or obligation. It                         

might be done to avoid punishment or earn a specific reward. For example,you want to                             

get 4.0 CGPA to avoid punishment by parents or you want to get a good result so that                                   

you can get scholarship from the school. 

 

Application : In the video, this concept was applied in the scene where Chia Ting                             

worked hard to find the formula for “black” while Chow was working hard to look for the                                 

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formula for “hole”. After that, Boon found out the final answer for the “Black Hole”                             

theory. Then all the group members were well prepared during the presentation and                         

managed to get a good result for their assignment. 

 

 4. Discrimination   

Scene Description : Terence started to get ignored by his team. He wanted to                           

celebrate with his team but the group members did not want to be friend with him.  

  

Explanation : A negative behaviour to a person in a group. It usually happens in a                               

group. A group of members started to ignore a person. For example, John is the only                               

chinese in a NBA team. His teammates bully him all the time because of his race.  

Application : Terence was being selfish and ego so the group members were not                           

happy with him. After Terence refused to show his progress, his group members started                           

to boycott him. At last, his teammates refused to celebrate with him.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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5. Aggression   

Scene Description : Boon, Chia Ting and Kah Yien refused to shake hands with                           

Terence after their presentation.  

 

Explanation : Aggression is behavior that intends to harm another individual. It can be                           

either verbal or physical actions. It also can be either direct aggression or indirect                           

aggression. Direct aggression means that the messages clearly derived from aggressor                     

while indirect aggression means that the messages do not clearly derived from                       

aggressor. 

Application : When Boon, Chia Ting and Kah Yien refused to shake hands with                           

Terence, this shows indirect physical aggression.  

 

 

 

 

 

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References 

1)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEctMbkDHV0 

2)http://giftedkids.about.com/od/glossary/g/extrinsic.htm 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Appendix  

 

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