SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & DESIGNFOUNDATION IN NATURAL & BUILT ENVIRONMENT

July Intake 2013Semester 2

Social Psychology (PSYC0103)

Submission Date: 2nd June 2014

Session : Monday 8AM – 11AM

Name Student ID No.

Lee Kim Thiam 0310710

Tan Chiew Nee 0303531

Liong Xin Yie 0316600

Tay Jia Jian 0315508

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Table of content

No. Title Page number

1. Cover page 1

2. Acknowledgement 2

3. Table of content 3

4. Introduction 4 - 5

5. Method- Apparatus / Materials- Procedure

6 - 7

6. Discussion 8 - 9

7. Appendices 10 - 14

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Acknowledgement

A sincere gratitude to Tan Chiew Nee, Tay Jia Jian, Lee Kim Thiam and Liong

Xin Yie for their outmost participation in making this project a success. Also, special

thanks to our lecturer, Mr Shankar for providing us with the advice, support and

guidance in helping us with this project. Additionally, we would like to thank Fong Jia

Zheng for playing an additional role in this project.

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IntroductionSocial psychology plays a big role in everybody’s lives. It has many concepts,

where people have experienced or probably will in the future. For this project, we

have produced a short video that shows the concepts that people experience in their

everyday lives. In this video, there are five concepts which people mainly

experience, which are unrealistic optimism, bystander effect, aggression, racial

prejudice and prosocial behavior.

The synopsis of the story is as followed. Darren comes back home and gets

drunk from alcohol assumption. He gets a call from his friend Sherny for lunch and

agrees. Sherny tells Darren that he is too drunk and he should not be driving,

believing that people die more from car accidents than most cases. Darren denies it

with a factual statement that even more people die from heart attack than most

cases but they are not shown to the public. He then assures himself that he will be

fine and leaves his house, only to get into an accident a few minutes later.

After crashing, there are two passersby who are at the scene of the accident.

They just stare at the accident without calling for help. Not long after, another

passerby comes and calls the ambulance immediately. At the hospital, Darren’s

friend, Jia Jian, visits the hospital and sees the doctor who is a Bangladeshi. Halfway

through, Jia Jian fantasizes about himself beating the doctor up, but when in reality,

he just thanks the doctor for his help.

Outside the hospital, Jia Jian pushes Darren out in a wheel chair and leaves him

at the top of a slope while he takes a phone call. The wheel chair rolls down but

Darren is saved by a passerby. At the end, she asks for money for saving Darren

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from rolling into the lake. When declined, she pushes Darren down the slope. The

whole video depicts concepts of what most people would usually experience every

day.

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Method

Procedure

For this project, we decided to use Taylor’s Lakeside University’s surroundings as it

was more convenient for the group members to carry out the project together. The

main areas of the campus that we shot our videos at were the car park and on the

road. We decided to shoot our video during the weekends as we predicted that there

would be lesser people during the weekends. This is to ensure that there is no

interference during our video shooting. We have used a few materials to help

complete this project. There were a few scenes which required us to shoot in one of

our group members’ house, where we were able to portray a person’s situation at

home. The house we used to shoot our video in had materials that were of good use

for our video project such as the sofa and the fridge.

Apparatus and Materials

The main apparatus for this project is a video camera for video shooting purposes.

We also had one extra person who does not belong to our group to play an extra role

in the video. The props used for this project include a car for one a few of the scenes

in the video, multiple clothing sets for the different characters in the video as there

are too few of us for the number of characters set in the video as well as can drinks

for one of the scenes. In the video, there is a scene where it required alcohol

consumption. Therefore, to refrain from alcohol consumption, we replaced it with soft

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drinks and stuck a piece of paper on the can to indicate that the soft drink was

alcohol.

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DiscussionFrom the video, we are able to portray some of the concepts that we have learnt

from our psychology lessons.

Unrealistic Optimism is the tendency to imagine that our own outcomes are better than

those of other people. The Unrealistic Optimism concept can be seen when Darren

tells Sherny that he will not get into a car accident, believing that it won’t happen to

him but does anyway. The definition for the Bystander Effect is when responsibilities

are pushed away in the presence of more people. The Bystander Effect is shown

when Darren crashes his car and when two passersby come across the incident,

they just stare at each other and wonder if they should call the ambulance. Thinking

that someone else would have already called the ambulance, they assume that the

accident is not their problem anymore thus walking away. Aggression is the intention

to harm other people through verbal or physical methods. The Aggression concept

can be seen when Jia Jian has entered into a thought of hitting the doctor. The

definition for Prejudice is a negative learned attitude towards people, while the

definition for Racism is the discrimination directed at a certain racial group. From this

video, we can see Racial Prejudice as Jia Jian was about to hit the doctor who is a

Bangladeshi as he is prejudice against Bangladeshis. In the end, he doesn’t when it

comes back to reality. This shows prejudice for the Bangladeshi race instead of

discriminating them as Jia Jian does not literally take any physical action against the

doctor. The definition for Prosocial Behavior is the positive social actions taken in

order to help others. It can be divided into two models, one being the Altruistic model

where behaviors are done for selfless reasons and also the Egoistic models where

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behaviors are done for selfish reasons. From the video, we can see that a passerby

helps Darren only to ask fifty dollars for saving him from rolling into the lake. When

rejected, she pushes Darren into the lake.

In conclusion, we can see the concepts that are applied into the video that can be

related to our everyday situations. These are a few examples of the many social

psychological concepts that we can all see in real life.

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AppendicesScript

Scene 1

(Jia Jian’s hostel)

Darren comes back from work and enters house, he then lied down on the sofa.

Starts taking beer out from the fridge and drinks a few bottles.

Friend calls Darren.

(Outside the library)

Sherny: Hey, you free tonight? Let’s go Asia Café.

Darren: Yeah, I’m down. I’m. Down.

Sherny: You sound kind of drunk. Are you drunk?

Darren: Nah, I’m. Yeah. I am. Just a little. No biggy.

Sherny: Yeah, you’re not going anywhere.

Darren: Pfft, I’ll make it there. (Unrealistic optimism)

Sherny: Alright, see you then.

Scene 2

(School basement carpark)

Darren gets in the car and starts driving.

Car crashes into tree.

Jia Jian and Chiew Nee just stand there watching Darren lying on the ground.

Darren: Help me…

Jia Jian: Should we call the ambulance?

Chiew Nee: Nah I think someone else will do that. (Bystander Effect)

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After 15 minutes, someone else passes by.

Passer-by: Hello, ambulance? Someone just fainted here, I mean he just crashed here.

Scene 3

(Outside the classroom at level 4)

In the hospital,

Jia Jian (Different person) visits Darren and met Darren’s doctor at the corridor.

A Bengalese doctor (Kelvin) comes out from the ward and explained to Jia Jian about Darren’s condition and also the medical fees.

Jia Jian starts getting angry because he doesn’t think that the Bengalese doctor is trustable.

In Jia Jian’s imagination,

Jia Jian tackles Kelvin and hits him.

Back to reality,

Jia Jian doesn’t do anything but agrees to the doctor’s words. (Racial prejudice)

Scene 4

(At the slope near Arena foodcourt)

Outside the hospital,

Jia Jian comes out from hospital while pushing Darren out in a wheel chair.

Puts Darren aside while he talks to Sherny about how to get Darren home.

Darren starts rolling down the stairs or ramp and is about to enter the lake.

A passer by runs out and stops Darren’s wheel chair.

Darren : Oh my gosh, thank you! Thank you so much for saving me!

Person: You’re welcome. But anyway, do you have like 50bucks?

Darren: 50bucks? Why would you need 50bucks?

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Person : Because I need that money for some urgent stuffs?

Darren : So you’re saying, that you save me for that 50bucks?

Person : If not, why would I save you?? (Egoistic model)

Darren: Well, even if I have my wallet I won’t borrow you that money!

Person : *pushes wheel chair down the slope*

THE END

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Settings

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Outside the school’s library, where Sherny called to ask Darren out.

The road beside the school’s basketball court, where Darren’s car crashed into tree.

Outside the classroom at Level4, where Darren’s doctor Kelvin came out from the ward.

Drafts and Doodles

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