CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -First impressions are based on a wide range of characteristics: age, race, culture, language, gender, physical appearance, accent, posture, voice, number of people present, economic status, and time allowed to process.

Detailed explanation-2: -A Harvard study revealed that it typically takes eight subsequent positive encounters to change another person’s negative opinion of you.

Detailed explanation-3: -The primacy effect is the psychological term for the very first impression you make, and other people make on you. Research shows how quickly brains make initial formative judgments and, once made, how difficult they are to change.

Detailed explanation-4: -First and last impressions are powerful forces in the perception process. The primacy effect is a perceptual tendency to place more importance on initial impressions than later impressions. The recency effect is the perceptual tendency to place more importance on the most recent impressions over earlier impressions.