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Explain how the experiment described by the professor illustrates the familiarity principle.
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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Speakings by user Elena Cristina
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- Some people believe that television has had a positive influence on society. Others believe it has had a negative influence on society. Which do you agree with and why? Use details and examples to explain your opinion. 50
- The man expresses his opinion about the university's plan. State his opinion and explain the reasons he gives for holding that opinion. 76
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 570.0 592.248995984 96% => OK
No of words: 160.0 155.574297189 103% => OK
Chars per words: 3.5625 3.80514564318 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55655882008 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.5479320883 1.79077849142 86% => OK
Unique words: 90.0 93.7148594378 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5625 0.604071249207 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 189.0 185.844578313 102% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0 0.0650381309087 0% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 4.35341365462 69% => OK
Average paragraph length: 53.3333333333 68.503853103 78% => OK
STD paragraph length: 42.0343774652 21.3332995233 197% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 19.5833333333 25.9943957902 75% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 14.8786946859 7.84667146824 190% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 32.0 42.0642570281 76% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.0 4.02192344571 124% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.26917420766 3.1217529195 105% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.7684375 1.45093177766 122% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.973823358517 0.99851816184 98% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 32.0 39.0421686747 82% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.49 7.12997991968 91% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.2028125 0.185688545393 109% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.176497775747 0.155154303396 114% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.17 47.1480722892 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.3010625 0.305395592593 99% => OK
STD word duration: 0.155754602159 0.189427763521 82% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 10.0 7.94979919679 126% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.97 6.2937751004 111% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.1 3.39508032129 62% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.75 59.7592369478 98% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.979166666667 0.995987282463 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.544680851064 0.656000678711 83% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.72340425532 2.60215298798 105% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.53191489362 1.56821927147 98% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.86838281088 1.99336655568 94% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.3190965875 0.317803793328 100% => OK
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Rates: 61.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.