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TPO 40 - Question 4
Agonistic Behavior
Within certain animal species, conflicts sometimes arise over resources such as territory or food. To resolve these conflicts, two animals of the same species may engage in agonistic behavior. With this type of aggressive behavior, the animals participate in a physical competition that demonstrates which animal is more powerful. While each animal attempts to prove its strength in the competition, it typically does so without harming the other animal once the winner is established, that animal gains access to the desired resources, while the weaker animal surrenders and leaves the area.
Explain how the example in the lecture illustrates agonistic behavior.
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- TPO 40 - Question 4Agonistic BehaviorWithin certain animal species, conflicts sometimes arise over resources such as territory or food. To resolve these conflicts, two animals of the same species may engage in agonistic behavior. With this type of aggress 50
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 369.0 592.248995984 62% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 100.0 155.574297189 64% => 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: 3.69 3.80514564318 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.16227766017 3.525876923 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.84225405414 1.79077849142 103% => OK
Unique words: 56.0 93.7148594378 60% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.56 0.604071249207 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 117.0 185.844578313 63% => The syllable count is low.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0334205819764 0.0650381309087 51% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 12.0 4.35341365462 276% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 8.41666666667 68.503853103 12% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 5.42307313451 21.3332995233 25% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 4.64083333333 25.9943957902 18% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 2.52033879447 7.84667146824 32% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 35.0 42.0642570281 83% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.85714285714 4.02192344571 71% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.26958595523 3.1217529195 73% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.238 1.45093177766 85% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.755134046757 0.99851816184 76% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 30.0 39.0421686747 77% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.85 7.12997991968 110% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.261666666667 0.185688545393 141% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.179556552527 0.155154303396 116% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.04 47.1480722892 74% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.3504 0.305395592593 115% => OK
STD word duration: 0.203646360144 0.189427763521 108% => 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: 9.28 6.2937751004 147% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 11.18 3.39508032129 329% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 55.69 59.7592369478 93% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.928166666667 0.995987282463 93% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.538696354821 0.656000678711 82% => OK
Rate of speech: 1.79565451607 2.60215298798 69% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.005566529 1.56821927147 64% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.59817351598 1.99336655568 80% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.21571674 0.317803793328 68% => It may have issues on recording quality or you may have pronounciation issues.
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.