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Explain how the example of the prairie dog illustrates the concept of habituation.
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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| 2019-12-14 | shrijan | 63.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-31 | Seema Modak | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-19 | Elena Cristina | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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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: 1.92626871876 1.79077849142 108% => OK
Unique words: 107.0 93.7148594378 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.685897435897 0.604071249207 114% => OK
Syllable count: 190.8 185.844578313 103% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0 0.0650381309087 0% => 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: 7.0 4.35341365462 161% => OK
Average paragraph length: 22.2857142857 68.503853103 33% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 14.9256661561 21.3332995233 70% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 8.15142857143 25.9943957902 31% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 4.75008399496 7.84667146824 61% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 34.0 42.0642570281 81% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.58823529412 4.02192344571 114% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.56550175546 3.1217529195 114% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.56705882353 1.45093177766 108% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.01304877477 0.99851816184 101% => 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: 5.9 7.12997991968 83% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.196666666667 0.185688545393 106% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.156787187685 0.155154303396 101% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.41 47.1480722892 96% => OK
Average word duration: 0.29108974359 0.305395592593 95% => OK
STD word duration: 0.177180820712 0.189427763521 94% => 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: 8.95 6.2937751004 142% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.76 3.39508032129 111% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.06 59.7592369478 95% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.951 0.995987282463 95% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.525762355415 0.656000678711 80% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.73396424816 2.60215298798 105% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.87521906765 1.56821927147 120% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.356309183 1.99336655568 118% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.266701012821 0.317803793328 84% => OK
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.