Behavior Modification
Individuals often modify their behavior based on what they have learned about the possible consequences of their actions When an individual learns through experience that a certain behavior results in pleasant consequences, that behavior is likely to be repeated. An unpleasant consequence, on the other hand, discourages further repetition of the behavior. While behavior modification can be observed in experiments, it also occurs frequently in everyday settings, when individuals change their behavior based on what they have learned about the consequences of that behavior.
1. Now listen to part of lecture on the topic in a psychology class.
2. This happens all the time with kids in schools.
3. Say there is a little boy or a girl who's just starting school.
4. Well, they are not really used to the rules about proper behavior for a classroom.
5. So at the beginning, they might, I don't know, interrupt the teacher, walk around the classroom when they are supposed to be sitting down, you know just misbehaving in general.
6. OK, but what happens?
7. Well, the teacher gets angry with them when they act this way.
8. They might get punished.
9. They have to sit at their desks when everyone else is allowed to go outside and play, and they certainly don't like that.
10. Soon they'll learn that this kind of behavior gets them in trouble.
11. They'll also learn that when they raise their hand to talk to the teacher and sit quietly and pay attention during class, they are rewarded.
12. The teacher tells them she is proud of them, and maybe puts little happy face stickers on their homework.
13. Now that their behavior gets a good reaction from the teacher, the kids learn to always act this way in class and not behave the way they used to.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 657.0 592.248995984 111% => OK
No of words: 160.0 155.574297189 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.10625 3.80514564318 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55655882008 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.12895771153 1.79077849142 119% => OK
Unique words: 102.0 93.7148594378 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.6375 0.604071249207 106% => OK
Syllable count: 197.1 185.844578313 106% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0878338064639 0.0650381309087 135% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 5.0 4.35341365462 115% => OK
Average paragraph length: 32.0 68.503853103 47% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 21.6517897644 21.3332995233 101% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 10.894 25.9943957902 42% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 5.84378165232 7.84667146824 74% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 33.0 42.0642570281 78% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.84848484848 4.02192344571 121% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.04632129985 3.1217529195 98% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.54151515152 1.45093177766 106% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.761748869825 0.99851816184 76% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 30.0 39.0421686747 77% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.36 7.12997991968 103% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.245333333333 0.185688545393 132% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.221926914897 0.155154303396 143% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 41.29 47.1480722892 88% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.2580625 0.305395592593 85% => OK
STD word duration: 0.152169711486 0.189427763521 80% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 3.0 7.94979919679 38% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.38 6.2937751004 38% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.82 3.39508032129 113% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 54.47 59.7592369478 91% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.907833333333 0.995987282463 91% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.550761887277 0.656000678711 84% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.93739673215 2.60215298798 113% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.87259041674 1.56821927147 119% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.47033179947 1.99336655568 124% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.22220545625 0.317803793328 70% => It may have issues on recording quality or you may have pronounciation issues.
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.