SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Group Member: Terence Tan Sim Chia Ting Boon Yi Chung Chow Kah YienNur Azreen Samiu

PLOT● Matt, is a freshman in John’s class.● Everybody does not like Matt because he is fat. They think that every fat boy is dumb so John is

one of them.● Matt always gets teased by his classmates because he's damn fat.● One day, during gym class, Matt was pushed down by the other friend.● Matt fell on John and banged on his foot accidentally..● John felt angry at Matt and wanted to fight with him.● Matt got punched by John.● While they were fighting, they were caught by teacher.● They were punished by the teacher. Gym teacher asked them to run around the track while

holding each others’ hand.● While holding hands, John realised that Matt actually was not a dumb.● They became best friends.

5 Concept that apply on this comic

1) Social Perception

2) Correspondence Bias

3) Self-Efficacy

4) Operant Conditioning

5) Accommodation

Social Perception -forming an impression of others based on available information

-Eg: In class, everybody didn’t like Matt because of his big body size. All of them thought that all fat boy was dumb so they thought Matt was also a dumb. John also thought the same on Matt although John had not interacted with him yet.

Correspondence Bias

- people make more dispositional attributions for others’ behaviours

- assume their behaviour is indicative of their personality, not due to the situation

- tends to happen when we don’t have enough information

- Eg: Matt fell down and hit John’s leg. John thinked that it was all Matt’s fault but he didn’t know that Matt was pushed by another guy.

Self-efficacy

- your belief in your ability to achieve certain goals

- people with high self-efficacy see difficult task as challenges while people with low self-efficacy see difficult task as something to be avoided.

- For example, this concept is applied in the comic when John wanted a fight with Matt. John has a high self-efficacy as he believe that he can beat Matt in the fight.

Operant Conditioning(Positive Punishment)

- A process that attempts to modify behaviour

- The goal of punishment is to decrease a behaviour

- Positive punishment is when unfavourable outcomes or events are given in order to weaken the undesirable behaviours

- Eg: Matt and John were punished by gym teacher due to the fight in order to correct their bad behaviour.

- Referred as punishment by application.

Accommodation- Accommodation is a process in which we

modify existing cognitive schemas in order to include new information.

- Eg: John starts to modify his existing cognitive schemas of Matt. Therefore, they become best friend in the end. This is because when they hold each others’ hands and run the track, John starts to adapt Matt which is, he is not dumb and that fat like what he used to think of about fat boys.

Reference Webs:

Operant conditioning (skinner) (n.d.). Retrieved 28 May 2015, from http://www.learning-theories.com/operant-conditioning-skinner.htmlWhat is positive punishment? (n.d.). Retrieved 28 May 2015, from http://psychology.about.com/od/operantconditioning/f/positive-punishment.htm