Social Psychology (PSYC 0103)
Assignment 1: Journal
I have done my assignment 1 for Social Psychology
and it has been graded. The intended learning outcomes of this assignment are 2
and 3 which both of them are under cognitive capabilities. It includes lifelong
learning as well as thinking and problem solving skills. I realised that by doing this assignment, we
have to be alert of what is going on around us, in everyday life so that we can
extract information effectively and relate learned knowledge to everyday life. Then,
we must think critically and creatively and must be able to analyse problems to
look for the best solutions. For me, someone has to think positively followed by positive attitude in order to achieve these outcomes. For example,
a person can always look for ways for self-improvement. To be honest, it took
me quite a long time to understand every concept that covered in chapter 1 to 5
before writing my journal. I found out that it was easy to understand the
concepts while listening to the lecturer during the class, but it took me times
to understand each of them when I relate my story to the right concepts. At
first, I was not willing to share my personal experiences as I did not share it
to anyone because they were the secrets that I keep since I was little. Since the
lecturer said that the journal we write would not share to anyone else, then I began
to write it into words. After I finished the journals and related them to the
social psychological concepts, I felt satisfied. I have never thought that I could
describe the feelings of my inner heart by words.
It was a great assignment as it gave me
a chance to share my experiences and express my feelings through words. By doing this
assignment, I found out that social psychology appears at anywhere, anytime in
our life. Every single action we do in daily life could even explained
by social psychological concept. Furthermore, I found out that my writing skill
is not good enough as I could still found some grammar mistakes from my journal
after it has been marked by the lecturer. In addition, the learning strategies that
have been prove effectively are repeating reading the notes over and over until
I know them well and go back over it again when I still don’t understand it.
Besides, I also make notes by jotting down every example that lecturer
mentions in class so that I can recall what have been taught in class when I do
my revision later on. I also organise my time to manage my learning in this
subject. However, my understanding towards the concept is not strong enough as I
still need to refer back to the notes as some of the concepts make me confuse
sometimes. Till then, I think that I need to spend more time to study the notes
given to improve my knowledge of social psychological concepts. As a conclusion, I think that this assignment
gives me better understanding about what is social psychology and how it
relates to our daily life.
