The Reflection Of Social Differences In Behavioral Science

Behavioral science is a complementary subject for this semester, but I was blank and clueless what this subject is about. So, I just register it since we need to do so. When I saw my class timetable, I think this class may be boring and tiring because it is in the evening. Surprisingly, when I enter the class for the first time, I saw a very enthusiastic lecturer that is Dr Tan Kit-Aun. He spread his positive and energetic vibes to me and my classmates. I was amazed with his spirit, but unfortunately, he was not the one who teaches the first class. But it is okay because first lecture delivered by Dr Zubaidah had opened up my mind about behavioral science and again, this Dr amazed me too. Thus, before a talk by Dr Zubaidah started, I was considering …show more content…
During my childhood, I had enrolled into few schools where each school really affect how my sight and view is, how I listen and understand something, how I interpret things and events, how to make decision and how to give out a conclusion. During my elementary school, I enter Chinese school in the morning and Malay school in the evening for my religious class. So, I had various background of friend and their character taught me that different culture will give different social influences. During fasting month in my elementary school, my Chinese school friend always ask me how was it feel to fast during that age because they had not done it. Some of them, had teased me by eating and drinking in front of me however there was a prefect get mad at him because he teased me. He who teased me may only think that he only want to play with me but the prefect see that he was not respecting me. Thus, both of their perception toward person who was fasting different although they only about ten years old and I only realized it when I am learning perception which is twelve years …show more content…
Selection. Information and stimuli received everyday need to go through selection by looking at interest, need, aesthetic and biology factors. It may seem to be simple however this first stage is a pioneer for a perception to be delivered out. Organization. By having a good organization, all data collected by brain during selection will be organized in a cognitive folder. Interpretation. This is where evaluation need to be done and manage it into larger or smaller files where larger files is more complete and accurate while smaller files is more simple and underdeveloped. In this stage, people tend to interpret something based on their comfort zone. Retention. People are not retain something in their memory if it is not importance and do not have special emotional meaning towards