Recently, there has been a debate about psychology. More specifically, regarding the passage, the writer puts forth the idea that psychology is a natural science and supports the idea through three remarks. However, in the listening passage, the lecturer is quick to point out that there are serious flaws in the author’s claim. In fact, the professor thinks it is a social science instead of a natural one, and addresses, in detail, the trouble with each point made in the reading text.
First and foremost, the author of the text states that psychology is a natural science since it observes the human mind as a function of the brain and affirms that psychological processes can be explored and measured. Nonetheless, the professor disagrees, claiming that psychology explains how influential behavior is affected in a social environment.
Furthermore, the writer feels psychology is based on verified facts and the application of scientific methods, allowing it to be advanced through experiments that lead experts to more data and theories developed. On the other hand, the passage elaborates the idea that psychology is based on phenomenons, meaning it has no subject certainty. To illustrate the point, the lecturer takes into account experiments from exams, which contradict the notes written in the reading.
Lastly, the author brings her/his argument to a close by suggesting that psychology is related to numerous subfields like biological, behavioral, and mental bases. The writer goes on to say that animal experiments, usually on rats, allow scientists to have a better understanding of neural and cellular mechanisms. Not surprisingly, the lecturer takes issue with this claim by arguing that psychology investigates cognition as the natural base in social applicants.
To sum up, although the lecture and the passage discuss psychology, they both conclude with different views and details. It is evident that they will have trouble finding common ground on this controversial topic and that the three comments disputed by the professor are effectively challenged by the author.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, however, if, lastly, nonetheless, regarding, so, in fact, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 30.3222958057 148% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1779.0 1373.03311258 130% => OK
No of words: 328.0 270.72406181 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4237804878 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98107598434 2.5805825403 116% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 145.348785872 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.564024390244 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 541.8 419.366225166 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.0688820174 49.2860985944 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.071428571 110.228320801 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4285714286 21.698381199 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.57142857143 7.06452816374 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.191266607525 0.272083759551 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0582172525649 0.0996497079465 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0695488070254 0.0662205650399 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105644160565 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0955542874228 0.0443174109184 216% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 53.8541721854 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.45 12.2367328918 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.64 8.42419426049 114% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 63.6247240618 159% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, however, if, lastly, nonetheless, regarding, so, in fact, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 30.3222958057 148% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1779.0 1373.03311258 130% => OK
No of words: 328.0 270.72406181 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4237804878 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98107598434 2.5805825403 116% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 145.348785872 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.564024390244 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 541.8 419.366225166 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.0688820174 49.2860985944 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.071428571 110.228320801 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4285714286 21.698381199 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.57142857143 7.06452816374 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.191266607525 0.272083759551 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0582172525649 0.0996497079465 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0695488070254 0.0662205650399 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105644160565 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0955542874228 0.0443174109184 216% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 53.8541721854 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.45 12.2367328918 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.64 8.42419426049 114% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 63.6247240618 159% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.