social psychology project 3- report writing

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & DESIGN

Foundation of Natural Built Environments (FNBE)

GROUP MEMBERS STUDENT ID

LEE SHZE HWA 0320053

ERICA CHIN 0320460

TAN YONG CHIEN 0320200

HAZEL CRISOSTOMO 0320152

JOEL LING CHYI JER 0320511

SUBJECT : SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (PSY 30203)LECTURER : T. SHANKARSESSION : Monday 2:00 pm - 4:00pmINTAKE : AUGUST 2014DUE DATE : 8TH JUNE 2015

FNBE 08/14 I SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (PSY 30203) I ASSIGNMENT 3 1

TABLE OF CONTENT

NO. TITLE PAGE NO.

1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 3

2. INTRODUCTION 4

3. METHOD: 1. Apparatus / Material 2. Produces

5 - 7

4. DISCUSSION 8 - 12

5. REFERENCES 13

6. APPENDIX 14 - 25


ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This was a group assignment which consists of 5 people in a group.

We were managed to complete this assignments with the efforts and co-operation from

every group members, Shze Hwa, Erica Chin, Hazel, Tan Yong Chien and Joel. We

were very happy and grateful that we completed our task on time. We were truly

appreciated and thankful to our lecturer, Mr Shankar for the guidance which helped us a

lot in producing the video, report and presentation slides.

Besides, we sincerely thank for Taylor’s Lakeside Campus for providing

classroom and facilities such as chair, table and projector to us for the video shooting.

We also appreciated to the students of Taylor’s Lakeside Campus which willing to share

the same classroom with us since there had no empty classroom for us. Special thanks

to our classmate to sacrifice their time for us when we needed people to film the video.


INTRODUCTION

The students were required to carry out a social psychology conceptual video clip

and required to do a presentation in a group of 5 in this project. Students should apply

any five or more theories from the social psychology lessons into the video clip, report

and presentation.

First and foremost, we had decided the story line which included 5 social

psychology concepts after the discussion. The concepts that included are stereotype,

implicit attitude, social loafing, confirmation bias and ingratiation. After decided the

story line, we had to produce a video clip between 3 to 5 minutes by incorporating the

concepts learned in class. Besides, we also needed to prepare a report which provided

the explanation of the storyline, concepts and also the analysis and applications of the

concepts. Furthermore, we needed to prepare a presentation slide which like a

summary of our report for the presentation on the submission date.

Lastly, this assignment allows us to learn and apply the social psychology

concepts in real world experiences.


METHOD

APPARATUS / MATERIAL

To make sure our video is suitable for the title “Group Work”. We conducted several discussions on the apparatus and material needed to complete the video clip.

Filming equipment Camera (LUMIX GF3) – For recording our scene of acting for our video (one people holding our camera to view from different angle).

Video Editing Software Windows Movie Maker – Editing Video.YouTube – Upload to YouTube.

Props and Costumes Work Set – Laptops, laptop bags, sketch book and stationery stuff for making it looks like we are having class. Casual Shirts – T-shirts and Polo shirt for making it we as students and formal working uniform to act as lecturer.


PRODUCES

1. Planning the social experiment A few discussions were conducted before carrying out the social experiment which is

the five concepts we chose. During the first discussion, decision was made on

conducting a social experiment and the research was also done based on the types

of social experiment.

2. Confirming the concepts

The concepts that will be used in our conceptual video were conducted after the

discussion in the next meeting. The concepts we had chosen were stereotype,

attitude formation, confirmation bias, social loafing, and lastly, impression

management.

3. Planning social experiments

After figuring out the concepts that we will be used in our video, some of us came

out with some ideas on them. For the stereotype, we will be asked for an assignment

from our lecturer and 4 of us will be in a same group. We felt lucky and excited

because we all think that one of our members is smart, hardworking and capable

student although none of us had been work with him before. For attitude formation

which is explicit attitudes, since two of our members were stereotyping the

characteristic of him and they treated him well because of what they heard and see.

As for social loafing, the work will be divided to each group member. Some group

members who always absent on meeting were contributed less effort in this group

work when compared to others. Next is the confirmation bias, it will be like a student


thinks that the member we mentioned earlier is lazy and not capable, then the

student decided to find the evidence to prove that his hypothesis about him is true.

Lastly falls to impression management which is ingratiation. In this concept, our

group will ingratiate ourselves to the lecturer to get a higher mark for the group

assignment that given previously. We will be satisfying by getting the highest mark in

the class on this project.

4. Dividing the roles

Roles were equally divided after the planning of the social experiments. We started

to decide the actors, actresses, and the cameraman. All of us were involved in the

shooting, Shze Hwa will be in charge of the filming process and Erica will be in

charge of the video edit.

5. Deciding the venue

On the forth group meeting, the venue of the social experiment was discussed and

in the end finalized with 1 venue but different places which is in the classroom E8.05

and D8.05.

6. Writing a report

The report was divided into parts to all of our members and it was based on the

format given by our lecturer.


Discussion

Summary of video clip

Scene 1 - StereotypeStudents in FNBE class were randomly divided into 4 people in a group for their final

ENBE project. Shze Hwa, Erica, Nigel and Joel were in a same group. Everyone except

Nigel thought that we were lucky enough because we were having Joel in our group, the

smart boy, but none of us had been work with him before.

Scene 2 - Attitude Formation: Explicit Attitudes

Erica and Shze Hwa were stereotyping the characteristic of Joel so that treated him

good because of what they heard. They agreed the suggestion of Joel because they

think that what Joel said was always right. However, Nigel did not agree on what Joel’s

ideas.

Scene 3 - Confirmation Bias

Nigel strongly believes that Joel is a lazy and not capable person and he had proven it

to his group members.

Scene 4 - Social Loafing

Erica and Shze Hwa had been absent for a few days. Joel was disappointed and felt

that Erica and Shze Hwa were contributed less effort in this group work when compared

to him and Nigel.

Scene 5 - Impression Management: Ingratiation

They planned to ingratiate themselves to the lecturer by flattering and brought some

drinks and food to the lecturer because of getting a higher mark. In the end, they got the

highest mark for this final project due to their previous actions on the lecturer.


Video link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmA67fSDGHw&feature=youtu.be


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmA67fSDGHw&feature=youtu.be

Concepts

1. Stereotype Stereotype is a well-known idea or image of a person or idea that is held by a number of people. A wide held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. For example, we judge a person by looks, like, race, gender, sexuality, and other superficial reasons.

2. Attitude Formation - Explicit Attitude Attitude formation can be divided into two groups. There are implicit attitudes and

explicit attitudes. Explicit attitudes are the attitudes that are at the conscious level and are easy to self-report. For example, when we meet a new friend and the new friend is wearing the shoe that we like. Then, we already decided to like this person and start a friendly conversation. From an attitude perspective, we consciously noticed the shoe that we like and determined that this was obviously someone with which we would get along.

3. Confirmation Bias

Confirmation Bias is the reality is that all of us are susceptible to a tricky problem known as a confirmation bias while we like to imagine that our belief are rational, logical, and objective the fact is that our ideas are often based on paying attention to the information that upholds our ideas and ignoring the information that challenges our existing beliefs. It impact how people gather information but they also influence how people interpret and recall information. For example : people who support or oppose a particular issue will not only seek information that supports their beliefs they will also interpret news stories in a way that upholds their existing ideas and remember things in a way that also reinforces their attitudes.

4. Social Loafing

Social Loafing is the phenomenon of people exerting less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when they work alone. For example, refers the concept that people are prone to exert less effort on a task if they are in a group versus when they work alone the idea of working in groups is typically seen as a way to group, but in some groups there is a tendency on the part of participants to contribute less to the group's goal than if they were doing the same task themselves.


5. Impression Management - Ingratiation

Impression Management is a goal directed conscious or subconscious process in which people attempt to influence the perceptions of other people about a person object or event. Erving Goffman - Canadian American Sociologist (July 11,1922 - Nov. 19,1984) who helped to explain society through the everyday interaction of people you will learn what he meant by saying that people are all actors playing a part and that our behaviour is dictated by symbols and weather we are in public or private. Ingratiation happen when we try to get others to like us with flattery, praise, and just generally trying to be likeable. People will like others who treat them good and admire them. But, if the person realizes that we being ingratiating to them, they might react with disappointment.


Conclusion

Through this assignment, we understand more about the definition of the social psychology concept and able to apply it to our real world experience. We had gone through the process of analysis, reflection and evaluation of our conceptual analysis in order to come out to the storyline of our video clip. Besides, we also learned how to film a good quality video to attract the attention of the audience. There have a lot of things need to be aware of when we film the video. For example, when the video start recording, we need to wait for a few second before we start to act. Therefore, the video will look more natural after edit. The video shooting process was smooth and we had created a lot of memory together.


REFERENCES

1. Yourdictionary.com.'Stereotype Dictionary Definition | Stereotype Defined'. N.p.,

2015. Web. 7 June 2015.

2. Study.com,.'Implicit Vs. Explicit Attitudes: Definition, Examples & Pros/Cons -

Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.Com'. N.p., 2015. Web. 7 June 2015.

3. Study.com. 'Social Loafing: Definition, Examples & Theory - Video & Lesson

Transcript | Study.Com'. N.p., 2015. Web. 7 June 2015.

4. Cherry, Kendra. 'Why We Favor Information That Confirms Our Existing Beliefs'.

About.com Education. N.p., 2015. Web. 7 June 2015.

5. Study.com,. 'Self-Monitoring, Ingratiation, And Self-Handicapping: Definition &

Examples - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.Com'. N.p., 2015. Web. 7 June

2015.

6. Thinkmap, Inc. 'Ingratiating - Dictionary Definition'. Vocabulary.com. N.p., 2015.

Web. 7 June 2015.


APPENDIX

Script

Scene 1

During the ENBE class, the lecturer had brief the students about their final project. The

lecturer had divided the students randomly and each group had 4 people. Joel had been

divided to group with Nigel, Erica and Shze Hwa.

Location: E8.05

Time: 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Actors: Lecturer - Hazel Crisostomo

Students - Joel Ling Chyi Jer (Joel), Tan Yong Chien (Nigel) , Erica Chin

(Erica), Lee Shze Hwa (Shze Hwa)

Lecturer: Good afternoon guys!

Students: Good afternoon Miss.

Lecturer: Today, we are going to talk about your ENBE final project. Okay?

Students: Okay!

Lecturer: So, your project will be consisting of 5 minutes video and ……

So now I’m going to give you the name list of the group. Group 1 will be,

Joel.

You pair will be Nigel, Shze Hwa and Erica.

Nigel, Shze Hwa, Erica: Okay! Okay!

Lecturer: So, you will be in group 1. Group 2 will be Choo, Sam, Marco and Tian Yong.

Group 3, Chau Xet Nee, Ignatius Jee,Roy and Aoron.


Students: Okay!

Lecturer: Do you have any Question?

Students: No.

Lecturer: Okay. So, don’t forget the submission date. Okay?

Students: Okay!

Lecturer: Okay. Bye~

- SCENE 1 END –

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Scene 2 - Stereotype

Nigel doesn’t like Joel to be his group member. Conversely, Erica and Shze Hwa felt

lucky and excited because they heard that Joel is a smart, hardworking and capable

student although they had not been work with him before.

Location: E8.05

Time: 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Actors: Erica Chin (Erica), Lee Shze Hwa (Shze Hwa)

Erica: Hey! Joel is in our group.

Shze Hwa: I know right. I heard he is good.

Erica: Ya, we no need to worry about our project.

Shze Hwa: Ya.

- SCENE 2 END -

Scene 3 - Attitude Formation: Explicit AttitudesJoel automatically became the group leader. During the group discussion, since Erica and Shze Hwa were stereotyping the characteristic of Joel. They treated him good and agreed his suggestion and arrangement because they think that what Joel said was always right. But, Nigel disagreed with Joel and ignored him. Location: E8.05


Time: 5:30 pm – 6:00 pmActors: Joel Ling Chyi Jer (Joel), Tan Yong Chien (Nigel) , Erica Chin (Erica),

Lee Shze Hwa (Shze Hwa).

Joel: I will divide the work to all of you equally. You help me find……

Erica and Shze Hwa keep nod their head and agree what Joel said.

Nigel: I think is not that good.

- SCENE 3 END -

Scene 4 - Confirmation Bias

Nigel decided to find the evidence to prove that Joel was not as good as what others said. On another day, when Nigel returned back from toilet, he was curious that what Joel was doing so he opens the door carefully and he found out that Joel was actually playing his hand phone game while others group members were doing the work. Nigel finally found the evidence to prove his hypothesis and he decided to tell the others group member about what he had saw. Location: E8.05Time: 3:00 pm – 5:00 pmActors: Joel Ling Chyi Jer (Joel), Tan Yong Chien (Nigel) , Erica Chin (Erica),

Lee Shze Hwa (Shze Hwa).

When Nigel returned back from toilet and he saw Joel was playing game……

Nigel thinks in his mind: See, I just went to toilet, he is playing game again. I’m going tell

them.

- SCENE 4 END -

Scene 5 - Social Loafing

Erica and Shze Hwa had been absent for a few days. They didn’t attend the group

meeting. Joel felt that they were lazy and irresponsible. Joel was disappointed and felt

that Erica and Shze Hwa were contributed less effort in this group work when compared


to him and Nigel. Joel expressed his feelings to Nigel. Nigel doesn’t like Joel because

he thinks that Joel was not as good as what others said.

Location: E8.05

Time: 2:00pm – 3:00 pm

Actors: Joel Ling Chyi Jer (Joel), Tan Yong Chien (Nigel)

Joel: Nigel, do you know where the others two? They have been absent for days now.

Nigel: No. I don’t know.

Joel: Hai~ those lazy girls.

Nigel thinks in his mind: Hai~ I really don’t like him. I think I deserved better.

- SCENE 5 END –

Scene 6 - Impression Management: IngratiationThe group ingratiate themselves to the lecturer in order to get a higher mark by flattering. They brought food and drinks to the lecturer during the tutorial section and hope that it will help them to create a good first impression to the lecturer. Location: E8.05Time: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pmActors: Lecturer - Hazel Crisostomo

Students - Joel Ling Chyi Jer (Joel) , Tan Yong Chien (Nigel) , Erica Chin


Lecturer: Next group.Students: Hi! MissErica: There for you. (Erica gives the drinks to the lecturer)Lecturer: Oh. (The lecturer feels surprise)Shze Hwa: Here is our progress. You haven have lunch right? This is yours. (Shze Hwa gives the food to the lecturer)Lecturer: Oh. Thank you. The lecturer was checking their progress……


Lecturer: Not bad. So, just submit it on that day.Students: Okay. Thank you. Bye!Lecturer thinks in her mind: Ya. Erm…I like that group.

- SCENE 6 END -

Scene 7Their final result came out. The lecturer had announced their marks in the class. Joel’s group got A- for their final project. They were satisfied with their result. Location: D8.05Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pmActors: Lecturer - Hazel Crisostomo

Students - Joel Ling Chyi Jer (Joel) , Tan Yong Chien (Nigel) , Erica Chin


Lecturer: Okay, guys. Today I’m going to give your marks.

Students were cheering……

Lecturer: Ya, okay. For Joel’s group, you got A-.

Joel’s group were cheering…..

Lecturer: And the second group, boon’s group you got B-.

Boon’s group feel sad……

- THE END -


PhotoScene 1

During the ENBE class at

E8.05


The lecturer brief the students about their final project.

Scene 2


Erica and Shze Hwa felt happy when they knew that Joel was in their group.

Scene 3


When Joel gave his suggestion and Nigel disagreed with his suggestion.

Scene 4

Joel felt disappointed on the girls and complained to Nigel.


Nigel doesn’t like Joel.

Scene 5

When Nigel returned back from toilet,


Joel was playing game while others group member was doing their work.

Scene 6

The group ingratiate themselves to the lecturer.


The lecturer likes Joel’s group.

Scene 7

The lecturer was announcing the result.


Joel’s group got A- for their ENBE final project.


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