1. September 6, 2012 [PSYCHOLOGY ASSIGNMENT 1]
Yam Yih Hwan (0305861) FNBE (Semester 2) July’12 Intake 1
Assignment 1 (Journal)
Social Psychology (PSYC0103)
FNBE July’2012
Yam Yih Hwan (0305861)
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October 2012

2. September 6, 2012 [PSYCHOLOGY ASSIGNMENT 1]
Yam Yih Hwan (0305861) FNBE (Semester 2) July’12 Intake 2
Entry 1
Recently, I’m been requested by one of my secondary classmate to join a K-POP Dance
Flash Mob on 29th
August 2012 in front of Student Life Center in Taylor’s Lakeside University
Campus. Even though I’m not a good dancer, I accepted her offers since I’m a big fan of K-POP
and wanted to learn dancing for quite some times now. We started rehearsing on 20th
August
2012 from morning 10am till 3pm in the afternoon. On the first day of rehearsal, I’m sort of
nervous because I’m still a beginner and have not much potential on dance.Sometimes, I felt
awkward being around because most of them know each other well and I had just joined into the
dance group. I tend to sit at one corner alone and have less interaction with them. Meanwhile,
some of the group members engage me and introduce themselves. I felt much comfortable and
started sharing my information to them. They are divided into 2 leaders in the dance group, a guy
who leads guys and a girl who leads girls. I’m been taught some basics by the guy’s leader, and
happened to make lots of mistake as my body isn’t flexible at first. Also, I’m felt uncomfortable
dancing since the studio is surrounded by mirrors. After days of rehearsal, my movements
became much smoother and have more confidence dancing while looking at those mirrors
around.Last day of rehearsal, we have to record down the whole performance and look into our
movements and every step we made. Somehow, my movement had been delayed and doesn’t
look good in the video.
On the first day of rehearsal, I had applied the concept “Social Cognition”. At first I tend
to control my thinking by looking at myself, and act carefully by choosing the right steps to
perform in front of the guy’s leader because I want to make myself look good in front of him and
doesn’t want to embarrass myself. Besides that, I need to memorize the steps carefully which

3. September 6, 2012 [PSYCHOLOGY ASSIGNMENT 1]
Yam Yih Hwan (0305861) FNBE (Semester 2) July’12 Intake 3
required high-effort thinking, so that I won’t make the same mistakes over and over again. After
days of rehearsal, I’m able to switch from controlled thinking into automatic thinking. Since,
Ihad practiced over and over again and gain experiences throughout the past practices. I’m much
familiar with the movements taught by him and able to perform it without making mistakes and
pausing to think for the next steps.
Furthermore, I had also applied the concept “Self-awareness”. Since it’s the first time I learned
to dance, by looking through my reflections on the mirrors, I’m aware of my own actions and
appearance. I tend to control my behavior more consciously,not because of my body movements,
instead of seeing myself reminded me that there was a discrepancy between my behavior and
internal standard, I desire to perform better but my behavior was that I don’t practice much. But
after days of rehearsal, my behavior had matches my internal standards, I felt much confidence
in myself and able to lower down my self-awareness. But when watching at the videotape we
recorded, I fell into the state of uncomfortable because I had practiceda lot, yet I made mistakes
during the videotaping.