TPO 13 - Question 4 Perceptual Constancy How an object affects our senses depends in part on external conditions, and these conditions are always changing. An object viewed from one angle presents a different shape to our eye than when viewed from anothe | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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TPO 13 - Question 4

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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 674.0 592.248995984 114% => OK
No of words: 159.0 155.574297189 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.23899371069 3.80514564318 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55098862472 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38564659562 1.79077849142 133% => OK
Unique words: 96.0 93.7148594378 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.603773584906 0.604071249207 100% => OK
Syllable count: 217.8 185.844578313 117% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.19417670683 117% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.173305611327 0.0650381309087 266% => Good job. The more, the better.

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.35341365462 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 159.0 68.503853103 232% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 59.15 25.9943957902 228% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 7.84667146824 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 27.0 42.0642570281 64% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.88888888889 4.02192344571 146% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.67129228448 3.1217529195 86% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.09296296296 1.45093177766 144% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.926741862716 0.99851816184 93% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 22.0 39.0421686747 56% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.5 7.12997991968 91% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.295454545455 0.185688545393 159% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.249740361043 0.155154303396 161% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.32 47.1480722892 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.297610062893 0.305395592593 97% => OK
STD word duration: 0.183842491784 0.189427763521 97% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 7.94979919679 75% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.55 6.2937751004 72% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.39 3.39508032129 100% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.15 59.7592369478 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.985833333333 0.995987282463 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.371935756551 0.656000678711 57% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.68808114962 2.60215298798 103% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.62299239222 1.56821927147 103% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.02874049028 1.99336655568 102% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.503911383648 0.317803793328 159% => OK

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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.

22 in 30

The introduction can be developed better:
In the lecture, the professor talks about perceptual constancy which means we have no problem recognizing an object when the angle or distance from which we are viewing it changes.