SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

JOHN'S STORYFNBE MARCH 2015

ASSIGNMENT 2 : COMIC STRIP

DANA KAN0323648

AMIR HILMAN0323767

CRYSTAL CHIA0323964

YAN JIE0323906

STORY PLOT John has a happy family which consists of his father, his mother and his brother. His

father was a hardworking man. However, ever since he was assigned under a new boss who is a racist Japanese man who has never worked with anyone but his own race, his boss disliked him and treated him badly. His new boss fired him when he did a slight mistake and never gave him a chance to explain.

John's father felt humiliated and frustrated that he lost his job to feed his family. As he went home, he took out all his frustration and anger onto his family. Back then he used to be a caring father, but he changed to be more aggressive and always treated his family badly. He eventually left the family to escape his responsibilities.

John was overwhelmed with sadness and shock that his father had changed and had left them. He felt there was no meaning in his life even though his mother and brother were diligently working hard for the family. Since that day, he didn't help out with house chores or even put effort into his studies.

He even started going to cyber cafes to play games. There, he became friends with the wrong people. They taught him to take drugs to take his pain away. When he needed more money for drugs, he asked from his mother for more. However, his mother did not let him have any more as he had asked for so many times. And to that, he decided to rob the convenience store with his friend, Michael.

Eventually he got caught by a policeman who was apparently in the store with them. He was then sent into jail for his act of robbing a store. His mother was informed and she immediately rushed to see him. She was so upset with John and was speechless that her son did not regret on his wrong doings. Instead, he blamed his misfortune on his father.

prejudice

Definition: is an unjustified or incorrect attitude (usually negative) towards an individual based solely on the individual’s membership of a social group (factors: race, age, social class, gender, nationality). Prejudice also convey negative feelings, stereotyped beliefs and a tendency to discriminate against members of the group.

Concept Applied: The new boss of John's father who is a Japanese man that holds a belief that all Asians are more superior than Westerners. He looked down upon John's father and assumed that he is uncapable of doing things. Therefore, he fired John's father so that he would be able to replace him with another asian.

Displaced aggression

Definition: Displaced aggression is when someone frustrates you, and you can not aggress the person who made you frustrated because that person may have more power then you. Therefore, you displace your aggression toward an innocent third party who may be less powerful then you.

Concept Applied: John's father was frustrated that he lost the job that he worked so hard for all this time. He was angry with his boss' decision however he could not express his feelings towards his boss.This caused him to go home and take his anger and frustration out on his family. This aggression is displaced on his family.

social loafing

Definition: the tendency of individuals to put forth less effort when they are part of a group. Because all members of the group are pooling their effort to achieve a common goal, each member of the group contributes less than they would if they were individually responsible.

Concept Applied: John is devastated after his father left their family. In his grief, he does not contribute in helping his family with the chores and other duties. He thinks that since his brother and mother are already putting effort, he assumes he is no longer responsible to help them in any way.

social learning

Definition: A learning behaviour that is controlled by environmental influences rather than by innate or internal forces and people can learn though observation, including direct instruction, modeling, and imitation.

Concept Applied: As John mixed with the wrong group of friends, through their interactions, he was introduced to drugs and learnt from them that it could be used to relieve his sadness and pain.

self-serving bias

Definition: The self-serving bias is people's tendency to attribute positive events to their own character but attribute negative events to external factors.

Concept applied: When John was caught, he believed he did nothing wrong. Instead, he thinks that the fact that he was caught and put into jail was all because of his father. He thinks he did justice that he didn't leave his mother like what his father did.He blamed his father's actions that treated them badly and left the family which led to the negative outcomes that he did.

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Presented by: Amir HilmanCrystal Chia

Dana KanYan Jie