SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN

FOUNDATION IN NATURAL & BUILD ENVIRONMENT

NAME: BENNY TAN SHIOWEE

STUDENT ID: 0315447

THE JOURNAL 1,2,3

The Journal 1 – 9th October 2013

The lesson of the second psychology class we began with predict how much we

understanding ourselves. This is a self-concept class. How much do you

understanding yourselves, have you ever think about this question and ask yourself as

well? People always predict that they know and understand themselves than others

since they always predict their sense and feeling for everything but occasionally, it

may be wrong. From the first activity we had been done in class which was perceive

ourselves with some question prove that we actually and exactly thought we were

what we perceive in our deep mind. In example, I am a superhero, this predict and

perceive you may want to be a superhero or a people who has the super/secret power

to save everyone. Another way to explain is to protect the people you love. I felt blur

and confuse that who I am in this 19 years I had been live when I saw the question

and started to think. I remember a movie named <Who Am I> which acted by Jacky

Chan. He lost his memory due to the incident of falling plane and this was what am I

at the moment. I realize that I should always remind myself who am I and what am I

to more understanding of myself. The next activity we had done was prediction in

behaviour and feelings. Lecturer show us several of misprediction of our feeling and

behaviours and that make me realize sometimes our predict to behaviour and decision

may be influenced by our self-respect and desire. People won’t admit to something

they don’t agree though that was right and therefore make themselves have a wrong

predict to their behaviour and decision in this case. The activity followed by ways to

be happy. I totally agree to this topic when I saw that and that was true since you only

live once in your life thus people shouldn’t keep think of what makes them sad and

unhappy. That doesn’t mean you may don’t care of that but makes that as a lesson and

you learned something from that. I think this may be a good ending for the class.

Always think on the bright side of the life.

The Journal 2 – 23rd October 2013

Mind thinking was incredible and awesome, it was fully unexpected and god-made to

people thus human is different from animal. I think human has more intelligent than

others in all aspect because of this until we have discovered another higher species.

The topic of lesson in class was The Power and Perils of Intuition which state in the

power point. And do you know yours thinking was partly controlled and partly

automatic? Our thinking was automatic controlled when we are in the situation of

impulsive, effortless, unconscious and etc. In other hand, the thinking was controlled

by us in reflective, deliberate, conscious and etc. In our memory, we can remember

someone face occasionally thus that was the first time we met. I felt interesting in the

memory constructing part since I had been so curious about it from long time ago.

Memory is a mysterious place that scientist can’t give an exactly explanation how it

work in daily life. Sometimes, the result may prove the hypothesis of memory wrong

since it couldn’t be controlled. The example was sometimes you couldn’t find the

thing even that was what you have be experienced in your memory. Memory is like a

treasure chest of Doraemon, it could collect and keep a lot of precious memories or

experiences in life. When you want to memorise it, it will depends on your feeling

and expectations at that moment to decide whether you can memorise it. However,

memory isn’t like the bank, can deposit and withdraw easily. According to the

psychologist, people who have their attitude change will deny their change of attitude.

The Journal 3 – 13rd November 2013

This lesson in class is interactive and interesting since it introduce us the working of

our eyes by Light in the opening of lecture. Light was part of the electromagnetic

spectrum which has the specific wavelength and frequency that we learned in physic

before. After physic is continue by biology, we revised the structure of eye include

how to image form in our brain through the eye. And definitely, the way it formed

include the structure in eye which was pupil, iris, cornea and lens. Follow by eye is

the colours, the lesson show us the effect and meaning of colours in our daily life. In

this case, I am agree that our mentally mood will be influenced by the colours because

the image we saw when we open our eyes is produce by particle with colours except

you are a colour blinder and this statement doesn’t have any discriminatory. The

interesting part in this lesson was the reversible figure, people always have their first

impression to an image in first view but sometimes it was wrong. This theory are a bit

like prejudice, we can’t judge a people before know them because of unfair. Can you

imagine that there are two different images in an image? Yes and it is. I think this may

be influenced by the left and right brain, it depends on how developing level of your

left and right brain. You may see two images and can change from one to another

under your control if you are well developed your brand. But if u only see an image

and hard to see other that may means your left or right brain might more well-

developed than another one. This was the theory I realized after I look at the several

images in class and before class. What you had seen might be the element which

effect to you but that doesn’t mean it was the ending.