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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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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 569.0 592.248995984 96% => OK
No of words: 161.0 155.574297189 103% => OK
Chars per words: 3.53416149068 3.80514564318 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.56210296601 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.69042262311 1.79077849142 94% => OK
Unique words: 85.0 93.7148594378 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.527950310559 0.604071249207 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 180.0 185.844578313 97% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.19417670683 92% => 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: 4.0 4.35341365462 92% => OK
Average paragraph length: 40.25 68.503853103 59% => OK
STD paragraph length: 41.1787263038 21.3332995233 193% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 15.02 25.9943957902 58% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 16.8027914348 7.84667146824 214% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 29.0 42.0642570281 69% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.55172413793 4.02192344571 138% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.27568057573 3.1217529195 105% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.90551724138 1.45093177766 131% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.935538149416 0.99851816184 94% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 25.0 39.0421686747 64% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.77 7.12997991968 95% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.2708 0.185688545393 146% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.195548868573 0.155154303396 126% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 46.74 47.1480722892 99% => OK
Average word duration: 0.290310559006 0.305395592593 95% => OK
STD word duration: 0.169285757015 0.189427763521 89% => 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: 8.59 6.2937751004 136% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.55 3.39508032129 134% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.08 59.7592369478 101% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.00133333333 0.995987282463 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.416111850866 0.656000678711 63% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.67976031957 2.60215298798 103% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.41478029294 1.56821927147 90% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.81857081729 1.99336655568 91% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.325826919255 0.317803793328 103% => OK
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.