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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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| 2017-03-10 | toeflibt.ara | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-19 | Elena Cristina | 88.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-09-09 | mgrajapt | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-23 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-11 | mgrajapt | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 612.0 592.248995984 103% => OK
No of words: 158.0 155.574297189 102% => OK
Chars per words: 3.87341772152 3.80514564318 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.54539209256 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.81670928411 1.79077849142 101% => OK
Unique words: 107.0 93.7148594378 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.677215189873 0.604071249207 112% => OK
Syllable count: 201.6 185.844578313 108% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0153711095899 0.0650381309087 24% => 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: 52.6666666667 68.503853103 77% => OK
STD paragraph length: 35.3113138936 21.3332995233 166% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 19.6566666667 25.9943957902 76% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 12.8974734821 7.84667146824 164% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 34.0 42.0642570281 81% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.64705882353 4.02192344571 116% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.93238703844 3.1217529195 126% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.67058823529 1.45093177766 115% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.24080367973 0.99851816184 124% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 36.0 39.0421686747 92% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.54 7.12997991968 78% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.153888888889 0.185688545393 83% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.142327435041 0.155154303396 92% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 49.03 47.1480722892 104% => OK
Average word duration: 0.310316455696 0.305395592593 102% => OK
STD word duration: 0.191094187414 0.189427763521 101% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 15.0 7.94979919679 189% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 11.31 6.2937751004 180% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.41 3.39508032129 71% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.97 59.7592369478 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.982833333333 0.995987282463 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.610479905036 0.656000678711 93% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.6793284721 2.60215298798 103% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.81448193997 1.56821927147 116% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.18233734448 1.99336655568 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.283357658228 0.317803793328 89% => OK
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.