Social Psychology

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Definition: The self-fulfilling prophecy is the state where a person directly or indirectly becomes what is being said about him or her, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behaviour.

Self-fulfilling prophecy

Example•The teacher from Class A expects the Class A students to score full As in mid-term test as usual because he believes that they are smart.•Class A students start fulfilling this prophecy of the belief that they are smart, thus passing the test with flying colours.

•The teacher from Class C expects the class C students to just pass the mid-term tests as usual because he believes that they are not all that hardworking and smart.•Class C students start fulfilling this prophecy of the belief that they are not smart and hardworking, thus slacking off and just barely passing or completely failing the test.

Definition:A process of behaviour modification in which the likelihood of a specific behaviour is increased or decreased through positive or negative reinforcement and punishment each time the behaviour is exhibited, so that the subject comes to associate the pleasure or displeasure of the reinforcement or punishment with the behaviour

Operant Conditioning

Example

•When Fedrick failed his test, his mother takes away his gaming systems and sources of entertainments. From this, Fedrick is facing negative punishment, where his privileges of playing games (Favourable event) is taken away by his mother. This will decrease his behaviour of failing his tests in the future.

Definition:The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.

Racism

Example

• Tofu is a Malay, and even though his family has discriminative views on Chinese people like Fedrick, he is still friends with Fedrick and is willing to help him through his studies because he believes that there is no need for racism.

Definition:The tendency to interpret and reject new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories.

Confirmation Bias

Example

• Fedrick’s mother say it is impossible for Fedrick to improve his results as she believes that he is a lazy person. She still insists that Fedrick will fail his upcoming tests even after Tofu told her that he is able to pass his tests.

Definition:Egoistic model – positive social actions or behaviours intended to help others for selfish reasons.Altruistic model – positive social actions or behaviours intended to help others for selfless reasons

Prosocial behaviour

Example

• Fedrick asks Tofu to help him study for his upcoming tests and Tofu agrees to help him without hesitation or asking for any favours. In the end Fedrick passes his test with flying colours and is very grateful that Tofu helped him. He decides to repay Tofu’s favour over a meal but Tofu refuses. Tofu is an altruistic model in this situation because he willingly helped Fedrick for selfless reasons.