Name: Nishey

Rashid
15-01351
Section: A
Social Psychology
Assignment
Naturalistic Fallacy:
My mother's friend once visited her in her clinic. She came back from shopping and
showed her shopping to my mother. She had bought very expensive lawn suits for
everyday wear. My mother asked her that why she had bought such expensive clothes for
normal wear. She replied that now-days everyone is wearing branded lawn suits. Its what
respectable people do now-days. (personal communicator
I think this event explains us the concept of naturalistic fallacy. My mother's friends
belive that buying expensive lawn is normal. !eople tend to follow what other people are
doing and because ma"ority of the people are doing it# that's why they think it's normal.
Cognitive dissonance:
My brother spends a lot of time using mobile phone# computer and he also he loves to
watch $% every chance he gets. I once asked him that wont the excessive use of these
things effect your eyesight& 'e said yes but I cannot stop the excessive use of these
things.(personal communicator
$his event explains the concept of (ognitive )issonance that these things will ruin his
eyesight but he wont stop using them. !eople do it a lot# especially smokers and drug
addicts show cognitive dissonance. $hey know the disadvantages of smoking and taking
drugs but they cannot get rid of it.
indsight !ias:
*e were watching the +,-. (hampions /eague -inal football match between (helsea
and 0ayern Munich in 1231. (helsea was not playing good that season and 0ayern
Munich was playing very good that season. $he match was being held in 0ayern
Munich's 'omeground stadium. ,veryone was sure 0ayern Munich will win but it was
(helsea who won the (up. My friend said that he had a feeling that (helsea would win.
4'e said #he could feel that (helsea would win4. (personal communicator
I think this event explains the concept of 'indsight 0ias. 'e sais that he knew what
would happen after knowing the result. !eople often think that they can feel# what is
going to happen in the future5 their sixth sense warns them about something happening in
the future. I don't think this is the case.
S"otlight #$$ect:
I saw a drama 6+7!+7 8I 7.6I and the main female lead had a dark complexion. She
was very conscious about it. She always wore dark colored clothes. 9nce her mother
made her wear yellow color for the the school farewell party because she was tired of
seeing her wear dull colors. She was very tense that day because she thought everyone
was watching her. I noticed that no one bothered that she was wearing a bright color for a
change. I have seen this attitude a lot of times in school life.
$his can tell us about the concept of spotlight effect. She thought everyone was watching
her but that was not the case. Spotlight effect is a common problem in young generation.
Role"laying:
$here was a play in my college.: 8hawahishoan ka ;ungle4. $here a girl who played the
role of a loving and caring mother. $he students practiced for a long time. She did a great
"ob. *hen the paly was over they returned to normal schedule. $he girl acted differently
and motherly. She would look after us and we were all very shocked. She was not like
that before. *hen we asked her she replied that she rehearsed the role so much that she
could feel herself in that role.
I think this event tells us the concept of roleplaying. She was so involved in that role that
acted like that character. I don't think that this happens to everyone but it can happen to
many people.
Attri%ution &heory:
I am watching a drama 8.68.7 now-days. In this the husband beats and
abuses(verbally his wife. 'is wife wants separation from him. 'er mother and mother in
law thought it was not a big deal as they faced the same situation in their early years of
marriage. *hen her father in law re<uested her to forgive his son# she sais that it was not
her husband's fault that he is like that# it is her father in law's fault. She said that as her
husband saw his father treating his mother like this# so he thinks that it is normal for a
husband to treat his wife badly over very small issues.
She explained her husband's behavior by relating it to his past life. (= So this story
relates to .ttribution theory.(-atima .wan# 32->-123=. *e often tend to explain others
behavior his terms of this theory.
7eferences:
3. 7asihd- ?ha@ala# personal communication# 9ctober 3Ath# 123=
1. 7ashid- .rish# personal communication# 9ctober 3Ath#123=
=. 7a@a- .li# personal communication# May 3Bth#123=
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