Entry 1

In this journal, Im going to do a reflection journal for lecture one. In the first lecture Ms. Pang Chia Yee asked us to write a few sentences of I am to identify who are we specifically. I find it very interesting. There are four important aspects we have to know about ourself, first is who are you, what is your gender, your feelings, and memories you had experienced. Halfway in the lecturer, we are asked to gather in a circle and everyone had to briefly say something about ourselves. It was really great and fun as we are able to learn and know about our classmates more. I also learned that we cannot be able to predict our behaviors and feelings, and we also tend to overestimate a lot of times in our daily basis. Besides that, I also learned that positive thinking is very important as it will effect on how we think daily. If we think negatively, everything we do will always feel sad, boring and meaningless. We must always think positively so that we will be more motivated and be more positive and happy in our daily lives. It was a great lecture to me as it teaches me to be positive and learn more about myself.

Entry 2

This journal will be for last weeks lecture which was about visuals. In this lecture teaches that different colours have different meanings to it. I learned that red colours tend to catches our attention more according to psychology studies. That is why our traffic lights are red in colour, and red is also used in valentines day and some major events like the red carpet. Ms. Pang Chia Yee also showed us a few pictures which boggled our mind as because in the picture, there are two objects that can be found in a single drawing. In other words, it was like an illusion. That part was fun as we all tried to figure out what can be found in the pictures shown. I also learned inattentional blindness, which is when we focus and

concentrate on something, we tend to not look at other things around us. Ms. Pang Chia Yee showed us a video survey which is about the survey called invisible gorilla. It was really interesting and fun thing to learn in this lecture.

Entry 3

This journal will be for this weeks lecture which is attitude and social judgements. I learned that attitudes are positive or negative evaluations of objects of thoughts. There are also 3 main components which Ms. Pang Chai Yee told us, she gave us a easier way to remember by just remembering the letters a,b and c. A stands for affective, B stand for behavioral, and C stands for cognitive. Ms. Pang Chia Yee also showed us a few videos related to monkey see, monkey do. I learned that we tend to look and learn from someone who has the experience or knowledge because it is on our nature. We also learned from someone who is older than us, has more knowledge and more experienced. I also learned that by giving positive reinforcements to someone when he/she did a good job, they will tend to do the action that they just did to get more positive reinforcements. For example, if a bird knows that it has to peck the door in order to get its food, it will keep on pecking because food is its positive reinforcement. I can say that this was one of the most interesting and fun lecture, and I learned a lot from it.

Name Student ID Course Subject Class

: Melvin Lim Wei Jien : 0315772 : Foundation in Natural and Built Environment : Social Psychology : 3.30pm 6.00pm