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TPO 42 - Question 4
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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| 2018-09-12 | mgrajapt | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-18 | -vv- | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-08-22 | Numfon Weidinger | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
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| 2019-11-11 | bishoy | 85.00 | Check this speaking |
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- Graduation speaker should be a business leaderI think the university should invite a business leader to speak at this year's graduation ceremony - perhaps an executive from one of the large corporations in the area. For students, business leaders are 85
- The university has announced that, effective at the beginning of the fall semester, three departments will be eliminated from the College of Liberal Arts: Ecology, Folklore Studies, and Textile Sciences. Arrangements have been made to ensure that currentl 90
- Using the example of goats from the lecture, explain the two benefits of animal domestication for early humans. 83
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 733.0 592.248995984 124% => OK
No of words: 176.0 155.574297189 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.16477272727 3.80514564318 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.64232057368 3.525876923 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.03411471545 1.79077849142 114% => OK
Unique words: 111.0 93.7148594378 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.630681818182 0.604071249207 104% => OK
Syllable count: 245.7 185.844578313 132% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.19417670683 117% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.102901230323 0.0650381309087 158% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 4.35341365462 69% => OK
Average paragraph length: 58.6666666667 68.503853103 86% => OK
STD paragraph length: 56.3106463192 21.3332995233 264% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 20.21 25.9943957902 78% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 20.2487053084 7.84667146824 258% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 27.0 42.0642570281 64% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.51851851852 4.02192344571 162% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.44197462239 3.1217529195 142% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.19111111111 1.45093177766 151% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.08038516223 0.99851816184 108% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 25.0 39.0421686747 64% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.56 7.12997991968 92% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.2624 0.185688545393 141% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.185089816035 0.155154303396 119% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 50.53 47.1480722892 107% => OK
Average word duration: 0.287102272727 0.305395592593 94% => OK
STD word duration: 0.166139696133 0.189427763521 88% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 7.94979919679 63% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.53 6.2937751004 56% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.49 3.39508032129 44% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.63 59.7592369478 101% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.0105 0.995987282463 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.412337126835 0.656000678711 63% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.90285337292 2.60215298798 112% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.83077684315 1.56821927147 117% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.19671482288 1.99336655568 110% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.405492494318 0.317803793328 128% => OK
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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.