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Explain how the example of the prairie dog illustrates the concept of habituation.
Habituation is a form of learning that is quite common among animals. When an animal experiences a situation for the first time, particularly one it considers threatening, it may instinctively respond by running away or by warning other members of its community with alarm calls. Normally, it responds this way each time the situation occurs. However, if through continuous and prolonged exposure the animal learns that the situation is harmless the behavior gradually diminishes. Ultimately, it will stop responding to the situation altogether. Thus, through habituation a natural or instinctive behavior gradually changes.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 613.0 592.248995984 104% => OK
No of words: 158.0 155.574297189 102% => OK
Chars per words: 3.87974683544 3.80514564318 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.54539209256 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.72970179232 1.79077849142 97% => OK
Unique words: 105.0 93.7148594378 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.664556962025 0.604071249207 110% => OK
Syllable count: 194.4 185.844578313 105% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0 0.0650381309087 0% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 4.35341365462 69% => OK
Average paragraph length: 52.6666666667 68.503853103 77% => OK
STD paragraph length: 42.7577153532 21.3332995233 200% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 18.9266666667 25.9943957902 73% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 15.2437010671 7.84667146824 194% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 35.0 42.0642570281 83% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.51428571429 4.02192344571 112% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.05935553345 3.1217529195 130% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.56742857143 1.45093177766 108% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.24702925354 0.99851816184 125% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 32.0 39.0421686747 82% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.89 7.12997991968 97% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.2153125 0.185688545393 116% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.187816139732 0.155154303396 121% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.56 47.1480722892 97% => OK
Average word duration: 0.28835443038 0.305395592593 94% => OK
STD word duration: 0.153284135767 0.189427763521 81% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 7.94979919679 75% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.41 6.2937751004 70% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.34 3.39508032129 69% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.78 59.7592369478 95% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.946333333333 0.995987282463 95% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.563578724903 0.656000678711 86% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.78266995421 2.60215298798 107% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.84924269109 1.56821927147 118% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.30465320457 1.99336655568 116% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.293527867089 0.317803793328 92% => OK
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.