TPO 13 - Question 4 Perceptual Constancy How an object affects our senses depends in part on external conditions, and these conditions are always changing. An object viewed from one angle presents a different shape to our eye than when viewed from anothe | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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TPO 13 - Question 4

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TPO 04 Question 4 67
23.Some people believe that the best way to succeed is to set goals and work hard to achieve them. Other people think that hard work is not as important as good luck. Which point of view do you think is true and why? 83
Some students prefer to sit in front of the classroom. Others prefer to sit in the back.Which way do you prefer? 90
TPO 03 - Question 4 Cognitive Dissonance Individuals sometimes experience a contradiction between their actions and their beliefs－between what they are doing and what they believe they should be doing. These contradictions can cause a kind of mental di 88
19) Some people like to watch the news on the television. Other people prefer to read the news in a newspaper. Still others use computers to get the news. How doyou prefer to be informed about the news and why? 70

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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 674.0 592.248995984 114% => OK
No of words: 159.0 155.574297189 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.23899371069 3.80514564318 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55098862472 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38564659562 1.79077849142 133% => OK
Unique words: 96.0 93.7148594378 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.603773584906 0.604071249207 100% => OK
Syllable count: 217.8 185.844578313 117% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.19417670683 117% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.173305611327 0.0650381309087 266% => Good job. The more, the better.

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.35341365462 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 159.0 68.503853103 232% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 59.15 25.9943957902 228% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 7.84667146824 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 27.0 42.0642570281 64% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.88888888889 4.02192344571 146% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.67129228448 3.1217529195 86% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.09296296296 1.45093177766 144% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.926741862716 0.99851816184 93% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 22.0 39.0421686747 56% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.5 7.12997991968 91% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.295454545455 0.185688545393 159% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.249740361043 0.155154303396 161% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.32 47.1480722892 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.297610062893 0.305395592593 97% => OK
STD word duration: 0.183842491784 0.189427763521 97% => 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: 4.55 6.2937751004 72% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.39 3.39508032129 100% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.15 59.7592369478 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.985833333333 0.995987282463 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.371935756551 0.656000678711 57% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.68808114962 2.60215298798 103% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.62299239222 1.56821927147 103% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.02874049028 1.99336655568 102% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.503911383648 0.317803793328 159% => OK

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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.

22 in 30

The introduction can be developed better:
In the lecture, the professor talks about perceptual constancy which means we have no problem recognizing an object when the angle or distance from which we are viewing it changes.