PSY205 Social Psychology INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS: 1. This End-of-Course Assessment paper contains ONE (1) question and comprises FIVE (5) pages (including the cover page). 2. You are to include the following particulars in your submission: Course Code, Title of the ECA, SUSS PI No., Your Name, and Submission Date. 3. Ensure that you submit your End-of-Course Assessment by the deadline. After the 12-hour grace period, 10% of the total End-of-Course Assessment mark will be deducted for each 24-hour block or part thereof by which your submission is late. Submissions with more than 50 marks deducted will be awarded 0 marks. 4. You are allowed multiple submissions to Turnitin before the deadline. After the deadline, only one submission is allowed, and only if you have not already made a prior submission. 5. If you fail to submit your End-of-Course Assessment, you will be deemed to have withdrawn from the course. Page 1 of 5 Please read this information before you start working on your ECA. This ECA carries 50% of the course marks and is a compulsory component. It is to be done individually and not collaboratively with other students. You must submit it on time. Submission You are to submit the end-of-course assignment (ECA) in exactly the same manner as your tutor-marked assignments (TMA), i.e., using Canvas. Submission in any other manner such as hardcopy or any other means will not be accepted. Ensure that you submit your ECA by the deadline. After the 12-hour grace period, 10% of the total ECA mark will be deducted for every 24-hour block or part thereof by which your submission is late. Submissions with more than 50 marks deducted will be awarded 0 marks. You are allowed multiple submissions to Turnitin before the deadline, after which only one submission is allowed, and only if you have not already previously submitted. If you fail to submit your ECA, you will be deemed to have withdrawn from the course. You are reminded that electronic transmission is not always immediate. It is possible that network traffic may be particularly heavy on the cut-off date, and connections to the system cannot be guaranteed. Hence, you are advised to submit your work no later than the day before the cut-off date in order to make sure that the submission is accepted and in good time. For video assignments, please ensure that you upload your videos in advance as it may take time for your video to be processed and uploaded successfully. Appeals for late submission due to the video processing time exceeding the grace period will not be considered. Once you have submitted your ECA, the status is displayed on the computer screen. You will receive a digital acknowledgement message. Please note that it is the digital time-stamp—and not the acknowledgement message—that indicates that you have submitted your ECA. To ensure a timely submission and to have your ECAs marked, you should therefore not jeopardise your course result by submitting your ECA at the last minute. Do ensure that you have the correct files for submission. Any submission, extra files, missing appendices or corrections received separately after the submission of the ECA will not be considered in the grading of your ECA assignment. Plagiarism and Collusion The University takes a very serious view of plagiarism (passing off someone else's ideas as your own; recycling of contents from your own earlier marked TMA from the same course or another course; or passing off Al-generated content as your own) and collusion (submitting an assignment which is the same or very similar to another student's). Both are forms of cheating, and neither is acceptable in any form in a student's work, including this ECA assignment. Avoid plagiarism by giving yourself sufficient time to research and understand the material so that you can write up your assignment in your own words and ensure that you provide appropriate references when necessary. If AI is used, ensure that the AI tool is properly cited, and ensure that you write your response entirely using your own words. Even when paraphrased slightly, AI-generated text can still be flagged as plagiarism. You can avoid collusion by ensuring that your submission is based on your own individual effort. Penalties for plagiarism and collusion are severe. Serious cases will normally result in the student being referred to SUSS's Student Disciplinary Group. For other cases, significant marking penalties or expulsion from the course may be imposed. For more information about Page 2 of 5 the University's policies on plagiarism and collusion, refer to the Student Handbook (Section 5.2, paragraph 1.3). Question 1 Develop your understanding of social psychology in the real world as you search news databases in order to identify two news articles with themes relevant to the psychological concepts mentioned by Ong and Ong (2023). The context of your articles need not be the one referenced by these authors, i.e., they do not have to feature the Israel-Hamas conflict, and they should respectively allow you to examine: • • an opinion aligned with at least two psychological concepts brought up by Ong and Ong; as well as an opinion that contradicts or disagrees with at least one of the psychological concepts from Ong and Ong. In terms of your essay, you shall first describe and explain the psychological concepts within Ong and Ong (2023) relevant to social psychology or social phenomena. Following this, you are to apply theories of social psychology to discuss the coherence of your articles (i) with Ong and Ong, as well as reconcile the difference of opinion between your articles (ii) and the required reading. Overall, your final essay shall convey how you analyse the applicability of social psychology concepts across three news pieces, Ong and Ong (2023) included, to the real world and explore the implications of these concepts in our daily lives. Required reading: • Ong, S. H., & Ong, B. J. (2023, October 17). Commentary: Black or white? Wrong or right? Don't rush to take sides on complex issues such as Israel-Hamas conflict. TodayOnline. https://www.todayonline.com/commentary/commentary-black-or- white-wrong-or-right-dont-rush-take-sides-complex-issues-such-israel-hamas- conflict-2283106 (90 marks) Page 3 of 5 Additional notes/guidance/instructions: 1. Chapters 3 (Social Beliefs and Judgments) and 9 (Prejudice) of your course textbook Myers and Twenge (2021) are useful starting points as you conceptualise your paper's direction and embark on research for your news articles. Reading widely and beyond the textbook content will add depth to the formulation of your essay's framework as well as the content of your submission. A good paper will require comprehensive references to relevant research studies. 2. There are many credible resources that you can access from the library and its databases. Always cite credible sources of academic information. Blog entries, online student papers or theses, and websites like Wikipedia and VerywellMind do not count as adequate reference items. 3. A minimum of 5 empirical references to support conceptual discussions and application pieces are expected. This means that in total, your reference list must have at least three news pieces listed (including the required reading) and five academic sources (excluding the course textbook and iSG) in accurate APA 7 format as a minimum standard. 4. Upon having done this research to supplement your discussion, remember to use your own words in your paper to demonstrate understanding of the subject matter and to avoid plagiarism. Al-generated content must also be suitably credited and cited. 5. The total word count for your essay, including in-text citations and excluding your reference list, shall fall between 1,850 to 2,000 words. References (5 marks) The References lists the full reference of all sources cited or referred to in your assignment. In- text citations also need to be presented accurately in APA format. There will be no awarding of 1, 2, or 3 marks. 5 marks: In-text citations and the reference list are presented in APA format with no errors. None of the sources cited in-text are missing from the reference list and vice-versa. A minimum of 5 academic sources are cited. 4 marks: In-text citations and the reference list are presented in APA format but there may be one or two minor stylistic errors. There may be sources cited in-text that are missing from the reference list and vice-versa. A minimum of 5 academic sources are cited. 3 marks: Formatting errors are evident in the in-text citations and/or the reference list. There may be sources cited in-text that are missing from the reference list and vice-versa. A minimum of 5 academic sources are cited. 2 marks: Major formatting errors are evident in the in-text citations and/or the reference list. There may be sources cited in-text that are missing from the reference list and vice- versa. 1 mark: Effort was made to present a reference list even though there may only be one item listed and it contains formatting errors; in-text citations may be missing. 0 marks: In-text citations and the reference list are missing. Page 4 of 5 English competency (5 marks) 5 marks: Extremely well-written with minimal grammatical/spelling/punctuation errors. 4 marks: Well-written, but may contain a number of grammatical/spelling/punctuation errors. 3 marks: Fairly written, but with a number of grammatical/spelling/punctuation errors. 2 marks: Poorly written with many grammatical/spelling/punctuation errors. 0-1 mark: Badly written with serious grammatical/spelling/punctuation errors. END OF ECA PAPER ----- Page 5 of 5