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Using the example discussed by the professor, explain what cognitive dissonance is and how people often deal with it.
Cognitive Dissonance
Individuals sometimes experience a contradiction between their actions and their beliefs－between what they are doing and what they believe they should be doing. These contradictions can cause a kind of mental discomfort known as cognitive dissonance. People experiencing cognitive dissonance often do not want to change the way they are acting, so they resolve the contradictory situation in another way, they change their interpretation of the situation in a way that minimizes the contradiction between what they are doing and what they believe should be doing.
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- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Use details and examples to explain your answer Snakes should never be kept as pets 60
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 593.0 592.248995984 100% => OK
No of words: 156.0 155.574297189 100% => OK
Chars per words: 3.80128205128 3.80514564318 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.53411884305 3.525876923 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.89945967957 1.79077849142 106% => OK
Unique words: 99.0 93.7148594378 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.634615384615 0.604071249207 105% => OK
Syllable count: 178.2 185.844578313 96% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.19417670683 92% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0528037995825 0.0650381309087 81% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 4.35341365462 69% => OK
Average paragraph length: 52.0 68.503853103 76% => OK
STD paragraph length: 32.5678778349 21.3332995233 153% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 18.4966666667 25.9943957902 71% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 10.8122903319 7.84667146824 138% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 38.0 42.0642570281 90% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.10526315789 4.02192344571 102% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.02437008391 3.1217529195 97% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.37552631579 1.45093177766 95% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.864555551679 0.99851816184 87% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 34.0 39.0421686747 87% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.83 7.12997991968 96% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.200882352941 0.185688545393 108% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.180772324259 0.155154303396 117% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 43.86 47.1480722892 93% => OK
Average word duration: 0.281153846154 0.305395592593 92% => OK
STD word duration: 0.144590321069 0.189427763521 76% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 7.94979919679 88% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.63 6.2937751004 74% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.79 3.39508032129 82% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 55.49 59.7592369478 93% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.924833333333 0.995987282463 93% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.612723013156 0.656000678711 93% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.81131735448 2.60215298798 108% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.78410524419 1.56821927147 114% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.25718194254 1.99336655568 113% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.308684038462 0.317803793328 97% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.