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Social Psychology

- Observational learning (also known as vicarious learning, social learning, or modeling) is a type of learning that occurs as a function of observing, retaining and replicating novel behaviour executed by others.- From the story, those minorities that succeeded in getting the job are very successful now. So Ben refers to how these people completed the tasks by observational learning.

Observational Learning

- Extrinsic motivation refers to motivation that comes from outside an individual. The motivating factors are external, or outside, rewards such as money or grades. These rewards provide satisfaction and pleasure that the task itself may not provide.- Ben is motivated to complete the tasks because he really wants to get the job as a quantity surveyor to earn money.

Extrinsic Motivation

- Social facilitation is the tendency for people to do better on simple tasks when in the presence of other people. This implies that, whenever people are being watched by others, they will do well on things that they are already good at doing.- Ben cannot do well when he is practising alone. However, when he competes with other participants, he successfully completes the tasks.

Social Facilitation

- A 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.- Ben predicts that he will do well in completing the tasks. Eventually he really did it and get the job.

Self Fulfilling Prophecy

- Downward counterfactual thinking is a positive additive statement  involves engaging in an event that did not originally occur.- Although Ben’s marks are not high, he is happy that at least he passed all the requirements.

Downward Counterfactual Thinking