FOUNDATION IN BUILT ENVIROMENT

(MARCH INTAKE SEM2)

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGHY – JOURNAL 1

NAME: NG JI YANN

STUDENT ID: 0323713

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SUBMISSION DATE: 30TH November 2015

TUTORIAL GROUP: MONDAY (5:30PM-7:30PM)

LECTURE:

Type of Social Behavior :

Social Facilitation

Definition :

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.

Situation:

Last year was my SPM year and it also last year been at my secondary life. SPM examination make all of the Form 5 Students , Teacher & parent worry .

I am a art-stream student .In this examination I had register for 6 compulsory subjects and 4 elective subjects. Elective subjects ,such as : Add-Maths , Accounting , Economics and Chinese .

My result in Trail Examination was not so good , so I need to put more effort on it . After our usual class , our teacher will had a free tuition class for us .

Type Of Social Behavior :

Sociocultural Perspective

Definition:

theory used in various fields such as psychology and is used to describe awareness of circumstances surrounding individuals and how their behaviors are affected specifically by their surrounding, social and cultural factors

Situation:

Type of Social Behavior:

Social Influences

Definition:

Defined as change in an indi- vidual's thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or beha- viors that results from interaction with another individual or a group. Social influence is distinct from conformity, power, and authority.

Situation:

Type Of Social Behavior :

Extrinsic Motivation

Definition :

Doing something for the purpose of obtaining an external reward or outcome is called extrinsic motivation. Besides that , it might be done to avoid punishment or earn a specific reward.

Situation :

Type of Social Behavior:

Availability Heuristics

Definition :

The availability heuristic is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision.

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