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TPO 42 - Question 4
Habituation is a form of learning that is quite common among animals. When an animal experiences a situation for the first time, particularly one it considers threatening, it may instinctively respond by running away or by warning other members of its community with alarm calls. Normally, it responds this way each time the situation occurs. However, if through continuous and prolonged exposure the animal learns that the situation is harmless the behavior gradually diminishes. Ultimately, it will stop responding to the situation altogether. Thus, through habituation a natural or instinctive behavior gradually changes.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-11 | bishoy | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-02-23 | mgrajapt | 73.33 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-23 | mahsa92 | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-18 | -vv- | 58.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-07 | toeflbeginner | 95.00 | Check this speaking |
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- one of your friends is often late for events and appointments which makes others angry You would like to help your friend what advice will you give your friend to avoid this problem in the future Use specific details and examples in your advice 82
- The administration has announced that starting next fall, the university will stop offering evening classes in many departments. According to a university administrator, the decision was prompted by a steady decline in enrollments in evening classes. &quo 83
- Sculpture Courses to Be DiscontinuedUniversity administrators announced yesterday that the sculpture program, a division of the art department, will be eliminated. "The main reason is a lack of student interest," reported one administrator. &quo 90
- The College of Arts and Sciences has announced that it will require students to write a senior thesis to qualify for graduation, beginning with students who enter the university this coming fall. The senior thesis is currently an option in all departments 83
- Talk about a game, sport or other group activity that is played in your country. Explain why you think the activity is enjoyable. 83
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 609.0 592.248995984 103% => OK
No of words: 160.0 155.574297189 103% => OK
Chars per words: 3.80625 3.80514564318 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55655882008 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.80795767027 1.79077849142 101% => OK
Unique words: 92.0 93.7148594378 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.575 0.604071249207 95% => OK
Syllable count: 197.1 185.844578313 106% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0529822868504 0.0650381309087 81% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 4.35341365462 69% => OK
Average paragraph length: 53.3333333333 68.503853103 78% => OK
STD paragraph length: 51.441444597 21.3332995233 241% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 19.28 25.9943957902 74% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 19.4401851843 7.84667146824 248% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 42.0642570281 74% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.16129032258 4.02192344571 128% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.66409584141 3.1217529195 117% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.78032258065 1.45093177766 123% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.948817545501 0.99851816184 95% => 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: 7.19 7.12997991968 101% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.239666666667 0.185688545393 129% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.164630562844 0.155154303396 106% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 46.48 47.1480722892 99% => OK
Average word duration: 0.2905 0.305395592593 95% => OK
STD word duration: 0.177742088432 0.189427763521 94% => 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: 8.69 6.2937751004 138% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.21 3.39508032129 65% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.84 59.7592369478 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.964 0.995987282463 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.51867219917 0.656000678711 79% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.76625172891 2.60215298798 106% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.59059474412 1.56821927147 101% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.97934595525 1.99336655568 99% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.4338258875 0.317803793328 137% => OK
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Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.