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Explain how the examples in the lecture illustrate the concept of reactance.
TPO 47 - Question 4
People all ages generally prefer to have as much freedom as possible in determining their behavior. When individuals feel that their actions are being unfairly limited, they often attempt to restore freedom by directly contradicting or opposing the rule of regulation that threatened their freedom. Both children and adults demonstrate behaviors that are the results of their urge to restore freedom. This reaction, termed “reactance” by psychologists, come from an individual's desire to reestablish freedom and control of a situation.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2018-05-10 | Elena Cristina | 89.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2020-01-06 | itzavid | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2020-06-27 | Sukhi26 | Check this speaking | |
| 2020-08-07 | ericandlf2 | 30.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-28 | sarasafizadeh | 65.00 | Check this speaking |
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- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement. Children should be required to learn practical skills, such as cooking or personal finance, in addition to academic subjects. 90
- Some students prefer to work on class assignments by themselves. Others believe it is better to work in a group. Which do you prefer? Explain why. 83
- Should government pay bill for museums and theatres? Explain your argument. 70
- Some people believe that primary schools should no longer teach children how to write by hand, and instead should spend time teaching them how to type on a computer. Other people believe that it is still important for schools to teach children to have goo 30
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 585.0 592.248995984 99% => OK
No of words: 153.0 155.574297189 98% => 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: 3.82352941176 3.80514564318 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.51700396316 3.525876923 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.93393380485 1.79077849142 108% => OK
Unique words: 96.0 93.7148594378 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.627450980392 0.604071249207 104% => OK
Syllable count: 186.3 185.844578313 100% => 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: 6.0 4.35341365462 138% => OK
Average paragraph length: 25.5 68.503853103 37% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 21.9222109591 21.3332995233 103% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 9.62666666667 25.9943957902 37% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 8.55407440281 7.84667146824 109% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 32.0 42.0642570281 76% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.78125 4.02192344571 119% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.9979242661 3.1217529195 128% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.688125 1.45093177766 116% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.22812722646 0.99851816184 123% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 35.0 39.0421686747 90% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.15 7.12997991968 86% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.175714285714 0.185688545393 95% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.167148962037 0.155154303396 108% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 46.88 47.1480722892 99% => OK
Average word duration: 0.306405228758 0.305395592593 100% => OK
STD word duration: 0.176248541009 0.189427763521 93% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 12.0 7.94979919679 151% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 8.77 6.2937751004 139% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.76 3.39508032129 81% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.76 59.7592369478 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.962666666667 0.995987282463 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.60595567867 0.656000678711 92% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.64889196676 2.60215298798 102% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.6620498615 1.56821927147 106% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.04778156997 1.99336655568 103% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.316339699346 0.317803793328 100% => OK
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.