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Using the example from the lecture, explain what behavior modification is and how it works.
Behavior Modification
Individuals often modify their behavior based on what they have learned about the possible consequences of their actions When an individual learns through experience that a certain behavior results in pleasant consequences, that behavior is likely to be repeated. An unpleasant consequence, on the other hand, discourages further repetition of the behavior. While behavior modification can be observed in experiments, it also occurs frequently in everyday settings, when individuals change their behavior based on what they have learned about the consequences of that behavior.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-07 | Elena Cristina | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-08 | cgms24 | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-07-14 | dasepular | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 629.0 592.248995984 106% => OK
No of words: 159.0 155.574297189 102% => OK
Chars per words: 3.95597484277 3.80514564318 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55098862472 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.79217696211 1.79077849142 100% => OK
Unique words: 101.0 93.7148594378 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.635220125786 0.604071249207 105% => OK
Syllable count: 189.9 185.844578313 102% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0479302987406 0.0650381309087 74% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 5.0 4.35341365462 115% => OK
Average paragraph length: 31.8 68.503853103 46% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 22.1124399377 21.3332995233 104% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 12.268 25.9943957902 47% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 8.98889848647 7.84667146824 115% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 49.0 42.0642570281 116% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.24489795918 4.02192344571 81% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.91043591829 3.1217529195 93% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.14040816327 1.45093177766 79% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.955503840131 0.99851816184 96% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 46.0 39.0421686747 118% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 9.29 7.12997991968 130% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.201956521739 0.185688545393 109% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.174064200615 0.155154303396 112% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.63 47.1480722892 97% => OK
Average word duration: 0.286981132075 0.305395592593 94% => OK
STD word duration: 0.169359706943 0.189427763521 89% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 10.0 7.94979919679 126% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.15 6.2937751004 114% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.21 3.39508032129 124% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 61.34 59.7592369478 103% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.02233333333 0.995987282463 103% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.749918487121 0.656000678711 114% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.59210955331 2.60215298798 100% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.6465601565 1.56821927147 105% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.21345605961 1.99336655568 111% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.240052150943 0.317803793328 76% => OK
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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 60 seconds.
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.