CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Halo effect: a cognitive bias wherein an initial positive impression of a person, brand, or product unconsciously influences our perception of them as a whole. For example, if you judge someone to be outgoing or attractive, you may also judge them to be more intelligent than they are.

Detailed explanation-2: -First Impressions Matter: The Primacy Effect. It has frequently been said that “first impressions matter.” Social psychological research supports this idea. The primacy effect describes the tendency for information that we learn first to be weighted more heavily than is information that we learn later.

Detailed explanation-3: -primacy effect. a process in which a person forms beliefs based on evidence from many sources, (1) the tendency to recall the initial item or items in a series; (2) the tendency to form opinions of others based on first impressions.

Detailed explanation-4: -For example, when an individual tries to remember something from a long list of words, they will remember words listed at the beginning, instead of the middle. The primacy effect aids an individual in recalling information they first see better than information presented later on.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.