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Using the example from the lecture, explain how people’s behavior is affected by reference groups.
Reference Groups
Our thinking and behavior are often influenced by other people. When we admire and respect someone, we naturally try to imitate their behavior and attitudes. Groups of people whom we admire and whose behavior and attitudes we tend to imitate are known as reference groups. Reference groups provide a model--a frame of reference--that can shape how we think and behave. Over the course of a lifetime, we may be influenced by many different reference groups. As we grow older, or encounter new circumstances, our reference groups may change, and our attitudes and behavior may change accordingly.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2018-07-09 | Elena Cristina | 81.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 591.0 592.248995984 100% => OK
No of words: 155.0 155.574297189 100% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.81290322581 3.80514564318 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.52844152537 3.525876923 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.86577700418 1.79077849142 104% => OK
Unique words: 101.0 93.7148594378 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.651612903226 0.604071249207 108% => OK
Syllable count: 193.5 185.844578313 104% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0513159464613 0.0650381309087 79% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.35341365462 46% => OK
Average paragraph length: 77.5 68.503853103 113% => OK
STD paragraph length: 46.5 21.3332995233 218% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 28.255 25.9943957902 109% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 15.665 7.84667146824 200% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 29.0 42.0642570281 69% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.34482758621 4.02192344571 133% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.06016124909 3.1217529195 162% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.87655172414 1.45093177766 129% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.64483575506 0.99851816184 165% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 29.0 39.0421686747 74% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.49 7.12997991968 105% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.258275862069 0.185688545393 139% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.189283020451 0.155154303396 122% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.8 47.1480722892 97% => OK
Average word duration: 0.295483870968 0.305395592593 97% => OK
STD word duration: 0.164987559838 0.189427763521 87% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 13.0 7.94979919679 164% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 9.28 6.2937751004 147% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.33 3.39508032129 39% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.51 59.7592369478 95% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.941833333333 0.995987282463 95% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.513183507344 0.656000678711 78% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.74287736684 2.60215298798 105% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.7872942842 1.56821927147 114% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.20524017467 1.99336655568 111% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.290909187097 0.317803793328 92% => 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.