PSY Video Report

FNBE 02/14 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY ASSIGNMENT 3

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

REPORT

(PSYC 0103) ASSIGNMENT 3

MONDAY SLOT: 4.00P.M. – 7.00 P.M.

SUBMISSION DATE: 8 DECEMBER 2014

NEOH JIA WEN 0318228

CHAN PEI SHAN 0318350

ROY YEIK CHIN HIENG 0317726

SHAM ZHEN WEN 0317733

MARCUS CHUA 0318593


Acknowledgement

We owe a great many thanks to a great many people who helped and supported

us during this project.

We wish to express our sincere gratitude to our social psychology lecturer, Mr.

Shankar for giving us this assignment that provide us an opportunity to learn more about

social psychology. We sincerely thank Mr. Shankar who guided us sincerely during this

project and favored us with valuable suggestions regarding the social psychology theories

apply.

Besides, the project would not be successful without the support of Taylor’s

University. They provide us a place which is comfortable and convenience for us to film

our project. We also thank for Taylor’s University for providing us classroom facilities such

as tables, chairs, whiteboard and projector which we really needed in our video shooting.

And finally, we would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the corporation

of the Taylor’s University student with us during video shooting. Special thanks to those

who allow us to share a same classroom with them when there is no extra classroom for

us.

Once again, we thank to all those who have encourage and helped us in preparing

this project and who extended us much understanding, patience, and support.


Content

TITLE PAGE

INTRODUCTION…………………………… 1

SUMMARY………………………………….. 2

METHOD……………………………………. 4

DISCUSSION………………………………. 7

CONCLUSION……………………………… 10

REFERENCE………………………………. 11

APPENDIX………………………………….. 12

FNBE 02/14 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY ASSIGNMENT 3 PG 1

Introduction

According Gordon Willard Allport, an American psychologist, social psychology is

a discipline that uses scientific methods "to understand and explain how the thought,

feeling and behaviour of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied

presence of other human beings" (1985). Social psychology is all around us, as we to

observe and identify ourselves and the others.

The purpose of this project is to analyze, identify various concept we learnt in social

psychology class and present our understanding of our chosen concept through a video

clip. This project consisted of 3 components, which include a video clip, a report regarding

the video clip and a presentation of the video. We are required to produce a video clip

with a minimum of 5 social psychology concepts apply in the storyline.

Inspired by some local production videos made by the Youtubers such as

DanKhooProductions and JinnyBoyTV, the theme of our video is about the interaction of

the lecturers and the students. The storyline of our video is very much related to our daily

life experience in university life. The psychology concepts and perspective we

incorporated in the video clip are impression management, first impression, non-verbal

cues, confirmation bias and stereotype.

This report record our understanding on the concepts and explanation on how we

incorporate these concepts into our video.


Summary of the video clip

Scene 1 - Confirmation Bias Student

Venue: Classroom E6.01

Student approach to the lecturer to ask whether her model is nice or not. However, the

lecturer keep telling her other way to do it. When the lecturer said:” Actually the model is

nice”. She just start to listen to what lecturer say.

Scene 2 - Confirmation Bias Lecturer


Student queue up to hand in their assignment. The student hand in and get rejected. He

rejected every idea of the student.

Scene 3 - First impression Student


The student come in the class at the first day. The lecturer is wearing unappealing attire

and looks nerdy. So the student talk behind the lecturer.

Scene 4 - First Impression Lecturer


The new students come in the class and the lecturer make first impression on the students.

Scene 5 – Non-verbal cues student ( Body language )


A lecturer is giving new assignment to the student. The student react in different way to

show that they are not happy with the new task given.

Scene 6 – Non-verbal cues lecturer ( facial expression )


A lecturer is listening to the presentation of student. However she listen to the presenter

with a scowl on her face.

Scene 7 - Impression Management Student ( Ingratiation )

Venue: Classroom E6.01, E6 corridor


The lecturer dismiss the class and the student wants to flatter him. He intentionally help

him to pick up his ruler and tie his shoelace. He also wants to treat him a meal.

Scene 8 - Impression Management Lecturer ( Spotlight effect )


The lecturer get a new iPhone6. He think that his iPhone 6 is noticeable. However, it is

not like what he thinks.

Scene 9 - Stereotype Lecturer


A lecturer is introducing the new international students. Different country student come in

and introduce themselves. However, the lecturer insult their nationality.

Scene 10 - Stereotype Student ( Sexism )


Students fight between themselves. The girls insult the guys and vice versa.


Method

We get our inspiration from Jinny Boy TV and Jian Hao Tan’s video. They are the famous

video subscriber in Youtube. We present it in a casual close-to-real-lifestyle, reflecting an

incident that might probably happen in ordinary life. The video is filmed in a humor way

to bring everyone who watched the video some joyness. Thus, the video is shoot in a

normal life method.

Apparatus/Material

1. Video shooting A. Cannon Eos 600D Kit 1 ( EF S18-55 IS II) - This camera is use to shoot clear high definition videos

B. Camera stand - To hold camera firmly while video shooting.

2. Props

A. Three iPhones

B. Design models C. Notebooks, Pencil box, Stationaries

D. Laptops E. Backpacks

3. Attire A. The Lecturer

- Dress Checkered Shirt, Polo Shirts - Chinos, Slacks

B. Lecturer 2 - Casual T-shirt

- Trousers - Slippers

C. The Students - Blouse, T-shirt, Cardigans

- Long pants, Shorts 4. Settings

Indoor Classroom at Taylor’s University, Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus - Traditional Classroom settings

- Quiet environment with sufficient light source - Equipped with Projector


Procedure

No Date Item Description

1 26 November First

meeting

To meet up with all members, briefly understand

the task given and do some research about the storyline of video

Suggestion 1: 5 types of people buying things Suggestion 2: 5 types of people interviewing

Suggestion 3: 5 types of student

2 30 November Discussion To discuss about the storyline of video and

determine the suitable theories.

Finalize theme: Lecturers and Students

3 1 December Discussion Finalize the storyline, settings, and concepts. Delicate the task among group members.

Roy : Edit video

Kayla : Do the presentation slides Pei Shan: Type out the theories and summary of video

Marcus : Prepare the apparatus and material and type the part of that in the report

Sham : Compile the report and do the rest part of the report

4 2 December First

filming

Meeting cancel. Due to no transportation of two

members.

5 3 December First

filming

Video shooting at E6.01 at 1.00p.m. for four hours.

Do the report for one hour.

Complete 4 scene of video. Complete 10% of report.

6 4 December Second

filming

Video shooting at E6.01 at 2.00p.m. for four hours.

Do the report for half an hour.

Complete 5 scene of video. Complete 30% of report.


7 6 December Third filming

Video shooting at E6 open space at 3.00p.m. for three hours. Do the report for two hours.

Complete the last scene.

Complete 90% of report.

8 7 December Online

meeting

Everyone online Skype. Discuss about the

presentation slides. Delicate the slides of presentation

Confirmation Bias: Roy First Impression: Pei Shan

Non-verbal cues: Marcys Impression management: Sham Stereotype: Kayla


Discussion

In our video, we had incorporated 5 concepts, which some involved a few sub concepts.

The main concepts involved in our videos are Stereotype, Confirmation Bias, Non Verbal

Cues, First Impression, and Impression Management. Because our video is a

comparative attitude and behaviour between lecturers and the students, each party is

involved in one sub concept of the main concept.

Confirmation Bias

The second concept is confirmation bias. It means that one only pays attention to

information that go with their belief and disregard those that doesn’t. Both the scenes in

our video only involved the main concept and did not corporate any sub concepts.

For the first scene shows the lecturer’s confirmation bias. The lecturer (Roy) is checking

the student’s (Marcus) project, but had showed no interest in hearing the student’s

explanation, as all of them are not disapproved by him.

In the second scene is about a student’s confirmation bias. It also shows a student (Pei

Shan) showing her model to the lecturer (Marcus), where initially the lecturer was not

approving her model, and had kept on criticizing her work, where all she did was sitting

there, doing other stuff and not listening to the lecturer. But then after the lecturer’s long

explanation about disapproving her work, he suddenly said “actually it was quite good”,

and then the student shot up straight and began listening to the lecturer again. But as

soon as the lecturer continued with a “but”, the student began to ignore him again.

First Impression

Our fourth concept is first impression, which means one’s impression towards others upon

meeting the first time. First impression is not deliberate, and happened almost

instantaneously after only 0.1 seconds. They are formed by just watching them purely,

and not by watching their actions. There are a few forms of first impression, like the

primacy and regency effect.

In our first scene we emphasized on the lecturer’s first impression towards the students.

It was in a new class where the lecturer (Kayla) watch her student’s attire and appearance

and formed her impression on them. For example, a good looking student (Marcus) in tidy

attire and prepared with his studying materials came in, and instantly it made the lecturer


created an impression that he is good looking and should be a good student. Then

another student (Sham) came in wearing messily and brought nothing to the class,

making the lecturer think that he should be a disapproving student. And lastly coming in

was a student (Pei Shan) who brought a Mac book and 3 IPhones to class, making the

lecturer think that she should be a rich girl.

The primacy effect means the first information you receive about a person has the most

impact on how you will remember them. In our second scene showed students’ first

impression on a new lecturer. A new lecturer (Sham) came into the class and told the

students that he was the new lecturer, but he was wearing a very informal attire like

slippers and tee shirts. While the lecturer was teaching in class, one of the student (Roy)

was sitting, thinking to himself, criticizing the lecturer, like his attire and his attitude. After

the class ended, the lecturer informally dismissed the class, as the other two students

(Kayla and Pei Shan) began saying out loud about how they think the lecturer is not

agreeable, as the first student (Roy) cut in and tell each other about their first impression

of the lecturer.

Non Verbal Cues

The third concept is non-verbal cue, which are the behaviours, gestures and expressions

conveying one’s thought without any words spoken. This concept can be divided into

some sub concepts, like facial expression and body gestures.

The facial expressions in non-verbal cues means that making different kinds of

expression showing how they think upon something or someone. In our first scene shows

a lecturer’s non-verbal cues. A student (Marcus) is doing his presentation, when the

lecturer (Kayla) began making faces throughout the presentation of approving, surprise,

disgust, contempt and so on.

Meanwhile, body gestures are non-verbal cues involving actions and movements to

convey the meaning without words. In our second scene shows the student’s non-verbal

cues. The lecturer (Marcus) came into the class and said that he’s giving the students a

new assignment, where all the students began showing their attitudes through non-verbal

cues, like the first student (Pei Shan) began rumbling her hair in annoyed, the second

(Kayla) who throw her hand up in anger and then lied back on the table to sleep, and

thirdly (Sham) who kept his anger and wanted to flip the table but did not.


Impression Management

Our last concept is impression management. It means ways to influence how others think

of someone or something or towards oneself. This process can happen consciously or in

subconscious. This concept has several different scenarios, two of them are the spotlight

effect and ingratiation.

The spotlight effect is when one thinks that everything about themselves is obvious to

others, like their thoughts, behaviour, appearance and more. In our first scene it shows a

lecturer’s spotlight effect. The lecturer (Roy) just bought a new IPhone 6 and thought that

if his students (Sham, Kayla and Pei Shan) saw his new phone, they will be really

impressed and envy of him. But in reality when he entered the classroom and tried to

show off his phone, all the students were not impressed and just treat it as a normal day.

Ingratiation is when one impress another by flattering them. In the second scene shows

a student ingratiating the lecturer. When the student (Roy) saw the lecturer (Marcus)

having several troubles, he did not hesitate to help the lecturer like picking up his pen,

helping him tie his untied shoelace, and treating him to a meal.

Stereotype

Our first concept is stereotype, which means an overly generalized belief about a

particular group of people. It can be of positive or negative connotations. Stereotype can

be distinguished into 3 sub concepts, which is racism, sexism, and ageism.

In the video, the lecturer shows a stereotypical attitude towards the students. There is a

few new international students in the class, and as they were introduced, the lecturer

began insulting them through some stereotypical facts of their nationality, out loud in front

of the class, making the students feel awkward and speechless. For example, the lecturer

assumed that the Singaporean student will be a very egotistical person, and a Korean

student, who without doubt, has done various plastic surgery operations.

On the other hand, sexism is the discrimination towards a certain gender. In our video,

the students had showed sexism. Both different genders had pointed out the negativities

of the other gender, showing that they all had a disagreement towards the opposite

gender. For example, Kayla had stated that all guys are brainless and stupid, Pei Shan

said that all guys are gross, whereas Roy said that girls get angry for nothing, and Sham

said that all girls are dumb.


Conclusion

In a nutshell, we are able to recognize and identify the connections among

concepts and perspectives within psychology and with other disciplines. Especially

making of this video, we manage to relate the components we learnt in social psychology

to our real life experiences. Throughout the relentless process of analysis, reflection and

evaluation, we developed from concepts, ideas to implementation of the video clip.

Besides, we learned to present a video in a creative way which we inspired by

Youtubers’ video. We have learned to shoot a video in different perspective. Although

acting is a little bit hard for us, we have tried our best to perform well in the video. At last,

we managed to finish the video in time. We also learned how to edit a video using different

software such as Premiere Pro and I Movie which is the most convenient and easiest way

to edit a video.

In conclusion, this is a good experience for us to learn about social psychology

theories. Besides, understanding more on the concepts, we make a lot of fun in video

shooting.


Reference

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2. Saul McLeod. (2008). Stereotypes. Retrieved from Simply Psychology website:

http://www.simplypsychology.org/katz-braly.html

3. Jade Mazarin. (N/D). Impression Management in Sociology: Theory, Definition &

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Appendix

SCRIPT

Scene 1 - Confirmation Bias Student

*Student approach to the lecturer to ask whether her model is nice or not. However, the

lecturer keep telling her other way to do it. When the lecturer said:” Actually the model is

nice”. She just start to listen to what lecturer say.*

Lecturer : Next up

Student : Sir, this is my model.

Lecturer : Why so many triangles? Can you lessen the triangles? Your lines should

straighten a little bit. Please use ruler. And please use scissors to cut your

model.

*Student show the impatient face to the lecturer*

Lecturer : This looks like plant cell.

*Student is playing her phone

Lecturer : This model, if you can change the design elements and put some color

then it will be nicer.

*Student playing with her hair*

Lecturer : Actually… This model not bad, very nice!

*Student show happy face and have the intend to listen to the lecturer*

Lecturer : But…

*Student become impatient again as she got rejected*

Scene 2 - Confirmation Bias Lecturer

Student queue up to hand in their assignment. The student hand in and get rejected. He

rejected every idea of the student.

Lecturer : Next one, Marcus. Show me your work.

*Student sit down and show his work*

Lecturer : Stop! No! No! No!


Student : Sir! You never listen also!

Lecturer : No no no no no!

Scene 3 - First impression Student

*The student come in the class at the first day. The lecturer is wearing unappealing

attire and looks nerdy. So the student talk behind the lecturer*

Lecturer : Hi class! I am your new lecturer

*The student start judging this new lecturer*

Lecturer : Okay! Class dismiss! Bye!

*Student start judging him after he go out*

Student A : Eh, you see the lecturer just now, wear slippers.

Student B : I agree. The first time I see him, I think he is useless. Our semester going

to die. We cannot rely on him.

Scene 4 - First Impression Lecturer

*The new students come in the class and the lecturer make first impression on the

students*

Student A : Sorry I’m late

Lecturer : This student not bad, quite handsome.

Student B : Sorry I’m late

Lecturer : This student so lazy, never bring anything

Student C : Sorry I’m late

Lecturer : This student so rich, bring 3 iPhone

Scene 5 – Non-verbal cues student ( Body language )

*A lecturer is giving new assignment to the student. The student react in different way to

show that they are not happy with the new task given*

Lecturer : Hi class! Congratulations for submitting the assignment just now. Now I

am going to give you a new assignment.


*Student A mess up her hair to show she is angry

*Student B straight lie on the table

*Student C wants to flip the table

Scene 6 – Non-verbal cues lecturer ( facial expression )

*A lecturer is listening to the presentation of student. However she listen to the

presenter with a scowl on her face*

Lecturer : Marcus, it is your turn to present.

Student : Hi, today I’m going to present

*Lecturer do a lot of facial expression during his presentation*

Scene 7 - Impression Management Lecturer ( Spotlight effect )

*The lecturer get a new iPhone6. He think that his iPhone 6 is noticeable. However, it is

not like what he thinks*

Lecturer : Today I got a new iPhone6. I believed the students will envy me!

*Lecturer go in the class and greet the student*

Lecturer : Good morning class!

*Student continue talking*

Lecturer : Good morning class!


Lecturer : Hi class!

*Student look at the lecturer for a second and continue talking*

Lecturer : I just get my new iPhone6! Very nice!


Lecturer : Eh class, who use iPhone6? Why cannot connect wifi?

*Student did not show interest in his phone*

Lecturer : It’s iPhone 6. Why nobody cares?


Scene 8 - Impression Management Student ( Ingratiation )

*The lecturer dismiss the class and the student wants to flatter him. He intentionally help

him to pick up his ruler and tie his shoelace. He also wants to treat him a meal*

*Lecturer drop his ruler when he wants to leave the class*

Student : Mr.Chua, Mr.Chua! You drop your ruler!

*Student help Mr Chua to pick up his ruler*

Lecturer : Thankyou! Thankyou!

Student : Mr Chua, Mr.Chua! There is dust on your shirt!

*Student help the lecturer to clear the dust*

Lecturer : Thankyou! Thankyou!

Student : Mr. Chua, Mr. Chua! Your shoelace drop already!

*Student help lecturer to tie his shoelace*

Lecturer : Thank you! Thank you!

Scene 9 - Stereotype Student ( Sexism )

*Students fight between themselves. The girls insult the guys and vice versa*

Student A : All guys are brainless! They don’t know how to think!

Student B : All women should stay at the kitchen!

Student C : All girls are dumb!

Student D : All guys are dirty!

Student E : Guys are gross!

Student F : Girls always get angry for nothing! Especially their period.

Student G : Cannot la! I rather be gay!

Scene 10 - Stereotype Lecturer

*A lecturer is introducing the new international students. Different country student come

in and introduce themselves. However, the lecturer insult their nationality*

Lecturer : Hi class, this is the new student. Please introduce yourselves.


Student A : Hi, I am from Singapore.

Lecturer : Singapore? I heard that Singaporean are all Chinese. Very Kia Su

( Scare to lose)

Student B : Sawadikap!

Lecturer : Where are you from?

Student B : I am from Thailand.

Lecturer : Thailand? I heard that all the girls in Thailand are guys! Are you boy or

girl?

Student C : Hi! My name is Sham. Nice to meet you guys.

Lecturer : Where are you from?

Student C : China.

Lecturer : China? I heard that China eat everything! Eat rats and dogs also.

Student D : Annyeonghaseyo! I am Kayla from Korea.

Lecturer : Korea? I heard that all girls in Korea do plastic surgery. You also do is it?

-THE END-

YOUTUBE LINK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBD6VJ12pBw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBD6VJ12pBw


Appendix

Diagram1.1&1.2: From left, Sham is researching the concepts to apply in the video;

Marcus and Roy are discussing the music for video; Kayla is writing down the script.


Appendix

Diagram 1.3: A close up of Kayla writing the script

Diagram 1.4: Roy and Marcus are editing the video

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