There are 2 social settings that I am

going to talk about. The first one is

schemas; the second one is

representative heuristics.

Schema is a mental concept that tells

someone what to expect from situation

and experiences. Information provided

by schemas usually comes from life

experiences. Our brains will

automatically use schemas to make

future encounters with similar situation

easier to navigate. I will provide a

schema that I obtain from the picture.

As I can saw that, he keeps checking on

his phone, maybe he had some

experience that he miss out some

important messages before. So that’s

why he keeps checking on his phone from times to times.

The main concept for representative heuristics is a short-cut for decision making that uses the

past experience to decide. Our brains will actually rely on the past life experiences and

mental representations that looks similar to the new situation and guide our judgement and

decisions. The benefit obtains from making decision via past experience are that we can get

the result much faster, in the other hand; we might also make the wrong decision. From this

picture, he is wearing sportswear, it seems like he is a sporty guy and maybe he is going to or

just finished exercise.

My conclusion from above is that, we could not a hundred percent rely on our past

experience, although they are quite useful.

Assignment 1

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Individual Journal

Name: Michael Chang Vui Loong

Student ID: 0319198

Subject: PSYC 30203 Social Psychology

Tutor: Ms. Norul Hidayah