How hard was it to let go of your original belief once you had formed it?

Changing your original belief is a hard sell for all of us. There are some scenarios
wherein the other person has to drown the other person with facts just so he\she will believe
and somehow have a change in perspectives. Well, some studies have proven that this type of
approach doesn’t really work in all circumstances. Because our minds doesn’t follow new facts.
Facts are stubborn things, and our minds are even more stubborn. Doubt isn’t always resolved
in the face of facts for even the most enlightened among us, however credible and convincing
those facts might be.

What implications do first impressions of people have concerning how you treat them, what
you expect of them, and your assessment on whether the acquaintance is likely to go beyond
the initial stage?

As we perceive others, we make impressions about their personality, likeability,

attractiveness, and other characteristics. Although much of our impressions are personal, what
forms them is sometimes based more on circumstances than personal characteristics. All the
information we take in isn’t treated equally. How important are first impressions? Does the last
thing you notice about a person stick with you longer because it’s more recent? Do we tend to
remember the positive or negative things we notice about a person?

The old saying “You never get a second chance to make a good impression” points to
the fact that first impressions matter. The brain is a predictive organ in that it wants to know,
based on previous experiences and patterns, what to expect next, and first impressions
function to fill this need, allowing us to determine how we will proceed with an interaction after
only a quick assessment of the person with whom we are interacting.

What are the implications of your responses to these questions concerning how you, as a
manager, might treat a new employee? What will the impact be on the employee?

If I were to be a manager of a specific workplace, just by saying that we should be fair

and open minded on how we perceive others, especially on those we have just met\hired isn’t
really adequate most of the time. If transparency is to be practiced, all of us will most likely to

We make first conceptions situated on a diversity of aspects, including physical and

environmental attributes. By means of physical characteristics, style of dress and grooming are
important, especially in professional contexts. We have general outline regarding how to dress
and groom for various situations ranging from formal, to business casual, to casual, to lounging
around the house.
What are the implications of how your answers for yourself in terms of job hunting?

In job hunting, it is long believed that good first impressions can have a lasting impact
on people’s feeling about you as an employee. And based on our answers above, first
impressions really are important. In all aspects, including job hunting. But we believe that is
one mistake that employers do, which is always depending on the first look. Studies say that
the most effective employees slip out of hand because they tend to shy away and not making
too much effort in an interview. Whilst those who are weak job performers tend to exert too
much in an interview. Kind of mordant, right? But that’s just how it is nowadays and we want to
make a stand on breaking that stereotype so that the people with the true potential of being an
effective and efficient worker.

SITUATION: You have just checked into a hospital room for some minor surgery the next day.
When you get to you room, you are told that the following people will be coming to speak
with you within the next several hours.

The surgeon who will do the operation

A nurse

The secretary for the department of surgery

A representative of the company that supplies televisions to the hospital rooms

A technician who does laboratory tests

The dietitian

A hospital business manager

You have never met any of these people before and do not know what to expect.
About half an hour after you arrival, a woman who seems to be of Asian ancestry appears at
your door dressed in a straight red wool skirt, a pink-and-white-striped polyester blouse with
a bow at the neck, and red medium-high-heeled shoes that match the skirt. She is wearing
gold earrings, a gold chain necklace, a gold wedding band, and a white hospital laboratory
coat. She is carrying s clipboard.

FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS

1. Of the seven people listed, which of them is standing at your door? How did you reach
this conclusion?
Response 1.1: I think it would be the secretary for the department of surgery. Reason why I
came up with this denouement is that secretaries are usually just behind their superior, jotting
down notes, scheduling for the next appointment, and recording the important agendas and
issues that is being stated by the doctor.

Response 1.2: The person standing at the door step would probably be the representative of
the company that supplies television. Why? Simply because he\she has definitely NO BUSINESS
being in that orientation. Why would that person be there in the first place? To inform the
patient about the only available channels? To fix wires of the television? To fix the remote? NO.

business
manager

technician surgeon nurse

dietician

Included in the illustration above are terms that we believe have the most complicated
and difficult roles inside the hospital. All of them are very much essential and needed in a
preoperational setting in view of the fact that we didn’t choose\thought that any of them to be
the person standing at the door step.

2. If the woman had not been wearing a white hospital laboratory coat, how might your
perceptions of her have differed? Why?

If at any time or instance that she had not been wearing a white hospital coat, we
would’ve thought that she is a hospital supervisor, or a rich business woman or some kind of an
entertainer because of how she had been dressed. It’s a normal reaction for normal people like
us to be wrong about our first instincts, but also same goes with doctors who misdiagnose their
patients just because of how they look the first time around. Fair enough? I believe so.

3. If you find out that she is the surgeon who will be operating on you in the morning,
and you thought initially that she was someone different, how confident do you now feel in
her ability as a surgeon? Why?

Before anything else, why would that woman be in a hospital setting if she wasn’t an
essential personnel? Does it seem logical? But kidding aside, as an advocate of women
empowerment, I would still be as confident as before regarding her skills as a surgeon. Because
women have those skills that not only men can do. We tried imagining the setting with closed
eyes, and our instincts are still the same as what we have concluded in the first questions.

On the other hand, interactions between patients and medical workers can oftentimes
be challenging. We all had consultations where the interaction was not suitable, either as
medical workers or as a patient ourselves. Neither one normally wishes to cause a difficult
situation but common misunderstandings, by both sides, often result in such an occurrence.

That is why communication and listening skills are essential for every consultation and
circumstance but in particular, for situations where the misconception takes place.
USING THIS GRID, RECORD THE RESPONSES OF CLASS MEMBERS

REASONS NUMBER WHO MADE

THIS SELECTION

SURGEON

NURSE

SECRETARY

TELEVISION
REPRESENTATIVE

LABORATORY
TECHNICIAN

BUSINESS MANAGER

DIETICIAN