The document is a journal submission from a student named Teo Chong Yih for a social psychology class. It contains summaries of three class sessions: 1) An introductory class where students answered questions about themselves and were introduced to psychology. 2) A class about self-concept where students defined themselves and learned about self-serving bias and predicting feelings. 3) A class about vision where students learned about the structure of the eye, effects of color, and visual illusions.

1. FOUNDATION IN NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT
FNBE APRIL INTAKE 2013
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (PSYC0103)– JOURNAL
Name:
TEO CHONG YIH
ID:
0314660
Submission date:
NOVEMBER 20, 2013

2. Social Psychology Journal
October 1, 2013
Today I started my very first psychology class in my life. I never learn or attend any psychology
class before. For me I felt very excited and curious about what actually psychology is. First, we
have a clear briefing about the module structure and rules before we started the class. Then we
had been given a paper together with some question to answer it. If I not mistaken, the questions
are about what you think and feel about yourself, what you think others think and feel about you.
For both question is hard to me because I never answer those question before so I took quite long
time to answer the first question and then I pass my second question to my classmate which sit
beside me to help me to answer it. After submitted the paper, lecturer begin the introduction of
psychology. After the introduction I felt that it‟s an interesting subject because I can learn how to
analyze and expand the behavior those around me and study the human behavior. I think
psychology is an amazing subject it is a combination of science and art. One thing I love the
most about psychology is it able to analyze and explain the behavior of human by using a
scientific method. I can‟t wait to find out more about psychology.

3. October 8, 2013
Today our lecture is about self-concept. An activity started before the lecture, we asked to form a
group of 5-6 people and each person need to answer 4 questions start from the sentence “I am......”
to define ourselves. At first those questions makes me confuse and I don‟t really know what to
fill into the sentences, so I started to think about is it just write down those simple answer like
name, gender or something more deeply like personality, characteristic, and etc. Finally I fill up
the five questions with „I am Teo Chong Yih‟ because I think name is important to me and it‟s
given by my parents without it I don‟t know who I am. For the second and third one I fill up „I
am strong and I am week‟. At some point I felt strong but some point I felt week and it depends
on different field, situation, and way. For ford answer I write „I am myself‟ because I can‟t think
who else can be me except myself, I am not superman, I am not my brother, I am not my father, I
am who I am.
According what I learnt from Miss Pang, every person is the center of him/herself and always we
tend to wonder about ourselves, we always think of ourselves first than others. The second which
I have learnt is predicting feeling. Besides, I also learnt what self-serving bias is. Throughout this
lesion I have learnt more about myself.

4. November 11, 2013
In today class, Miss Pang gave a talk on “Visual”. Visual is a pertaining to seeing or sight. To
see something we need light. Light is a part of electromagnetic spectrum, the continuum of all
the frequencies of radiated energy such as Gamma rays, X-rays, Ultraviolet, visible light, infra
rays, radio, and TV transmission. Besides, I also learnt the structure of eye. Even though I have
learnt that in my secondary school but I forgot most of them, so that remind me of those pass
memory about the eye. Other than that, I also learnt the common disorders of vision. The most
interesting part of the lesion today is the effect of color. Miss Pang explains about the effect of
color in psychology term. I have learnt different color have different effect in term of psychology,
for example blue is more productive, red can get attention and focus, and others. That was funny
and interesting because we always affected by those colors which surrounding us. Before the end
of the class we had been show what is the visual system, there are reversible figure, ambiguous
formula, inattention blindness, assembling forms, subjective contours, gestalt principle,
formulating perception hypothesis, perceiving depth or distance, linear perspective, texture
gradient, interposition, relative size, light and shadow, perception constancies in vision. We also
have been though about the visual illusions. That was amazing when seeing those visual illusions
which will makes me confuse and get to know how my brain integrates when seeing whose
picture.