CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Primacy effect is the tendency to recall information better when it falls at the start of a list/sequence. Recency effect is the tendency to recall information better when it falls at the end of a list/sequence.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -When asked to recall a list of items in any order (free recall), people tend to begin recall with the end of the list, recalling those items best (the recency effect). Among earlier list items, the first few items are recalled more frequently than the middle items (the primacy effect).