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The Familiarity Principle
People tend to develop a preference for things they have previously encountered, things they are familiar with. Social psychologists refer to this tendency as the familiarity principle. Given a choice between two similar items, one they have experienced before and another that is new. most people will choose the familiar item. This principle operates even when people are not conscious of their previous experience with an item. Once people have been exposed to an item, even if they do not recall having been exposed to it, they will tend to prefer that item over other items to which they have not been previously exposed.
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| 2018-07-31 | Valeria1949 | 76.00 | Check this speaking |
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- What characteristic in a house or apartment do you think is the most important for making it a good place to live? Choose one quality or characteristic. Explain why you think it is important 90
- Many farmers keep animals and raise crops at the same time. While some farmers treat the cultivation of their animals and plants as two separate activities, others integrate the two so that they work together. This is called integrated farming. Integrated 81
- Advertisers often try to sell you things by exaggerating about the quality of their products. It helps them get your attention. And exaggeration in advertising is usually considered acceptable, but not always. In the United States, there are laws to help 51
- Using the main points and examples from the lecture, describe the two kinds of rock formations in a cavern, and explain how the professor helps his students remember the difference between the two. 81
- Using points and examples from the talk explain what psychologists have learned about the formation of bonds between infants and their caregivers 66
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 663.0 592.248995984 112% => OK
No of words: 171.0 155.574297189 110% => OK
Chars per words: 3.87719298246 3.80514564318 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.61617157096 3.525876923 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.84552731435 1.79077849142 103% => OK
Unique words: 103.0 93.7148594378 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.602339181287 0.604071249207 100% => OK
Syllable count: 211.5 185.844578313 114% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0875593299681 0.0650381309087 135% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 5.0 4.35341365462 115% => OK
Average paragraph length: 34.2 68.503853103 50% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 17.1160743163 21.3332995233 80% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 11.782 25.9943957902 45% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 5.14169388431 7.84667146824 66% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 32.0 42.0642570281 76% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.34375 4.02192344571 133% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.71440197029 3.1217529195 151% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.781875 1.45093177766 123% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.17842436515 0.99851816184 118% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 28.0 39.0421686747 72% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.83 7.12997991968 96% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.243928571429 0.185688545393 131% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.175282206857 0.155154303396 113% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.89 47.1480722892 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.280058479532 0.305395592593 92% => OK
STD word duration: 0.155569119577 0.189427763521 82% => 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: 4.15 6.2937751004 66% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.14 3.39508032129 63% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.91 59.7592369478 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.981833333333 0.995987282463 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.475301307079 0.656000678711 72% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.90273298252 2.60215298798 112% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.74842980818 1.56821927147 111% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.15076216329 1.99336655568 108% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.395957321637 0.317803793328 125% => OK
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.