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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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| 2017-05-24 | Tulips | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 619.0 592.248995984 105% => OK
No of words: 160.0 155.574297189 103% => OK
Chars per words: 3.86875 3.80514564318 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55655882008 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.72526039701 1.79077849142 96% => OK
Unique words: 105.0 93.7148594378 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.65625 0.604071249207 109% => OK
Syllable count: 201.6 185.844578313 108% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0382563378587 0.0650381309087 59% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.35341365462 46% => OK
Average paragraph length: 80.0 68.503853103 117% => OK
STD paragraph length: 6.0 21.3332995233 28% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 29.725 25.9943957902 114% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 3.675 7.84667146824 47% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 44.0 42.0642570281 105% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.63636363636 4.02192344571 90% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.82915751265 3.1217529195 91% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.29159090909 1.45093177766 89% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.826206949592 0.99851816184 83% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 46.0 39.0421686747 118% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 9.11 7.12997991968 128% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.198043478261 0.185688545393 107% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.146043763024 0.155154303396 94% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 46.07 47.1480722892 98% => OK
Average word duration: 0.2879375 0.305395592593 94% => OK
STD word duration: 0.161191256257 0.189427763521 85% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 7.94979919679 113% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.47 6.2937751004 103% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.15 3.39508032129 63% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.45 59.7592369478 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.990833333333 0.995987282463 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.773759461733 0.656000678711 118% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.6913372582 2.60215298798 103% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.76619007569 1.56821927147 113% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.27914043846 1.99336655568 114% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.259126175 0.317803793328 82% => 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.