Social Learning
One way people learn is by watching the behavior of others. Sometimes called social learning, this type of learning involves the process of learning to copy—or not copy—the action of another. By observing the results, or consequences, of another's behavior, people learn, over time, to either imitate or avoid imitating that behavior. In general, people tend to imitate the behavior of another when they see that it leads to a desirable consequence—hoping to repeat it for themselves. Of course, the opposite is also true—people tend to avoid imitating the behavior of another when they see it result in an undesirable consequence.
1. Ok, so an example to illustrate this.
2. You often see this happen in families.
3. Let's say there are these two kids, a sister and a brother.
4. Let's say the girl is six and the boy is four.
5. And one day they are all out shopping with their mother and they are in a store.
6. And the girl sees a toy she wants.
7. She asks her mother to buy it, to buy the toy for her but the mother says no.
8. So what does the little girl do?
9. She starts crying and screaming.
10. You know "mommy, I want it" and finally mom gives in and says "ok, fine, you can have it" and buys the girl the toy.
11. Now don't forget the little brother is there and he is watching all this happen and maybe he sees this sort of thing happened a lot as mother giving in when his sister cries and screams.
12. What do you think he is going to start doing when he wants something from Mom?
13. He will probably cry and scream, right?
14. But what if the opposite had happened?
15. Same Mom didn't give in and didn't buy the girl the toy.
16. In fact, same Mom instead disciplines the girl for screaming and crying.
17. When they got home, she didn't let the little girl watch her favorite TV program.
18. Again the little boy is watching.
19. Now what's the little boy likely to do if he finds himself in a similar situation and he wants Mom to buy him something?
20. Chances are he is not gonna cry and scream, right?
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 689.0 592.248995984 116% => OK
No of words: 166.0 155.574297189 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.15060240964 3.80514564318 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.58944267634 3.525876923 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.26980565454 1.79077849142 127% => OK
Unique words: 106.0 93.7148594378 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.638554216867 0.604071249207 106% => OK
Syllable count: 214.2 185.844578313 115% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0136949803364 0.0650381309087 21% => 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: 2.0 4.35341365462 46% => OK
Average paragraph length: 83.0 68.503853103 121% => OK
STD paragraph length: 5.0 21.3332995233 23% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 27.39 25.9943957902 105% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.34 7.84667146824 4% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 36.0 42.0642570281 86% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.61111111111 4.02192344571 115% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.91065338231 3.1217529195 125% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.47444444444 1.45093177766 102% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.04747698051 0.99851816184 105% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 38.0 39.0421686747 97% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.32 7.12997991968 75% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.14 0.185688545393 75% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.11154418525 0.155154303396 72% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 44.83 47.1480722892 95% => OK
Average word duration: 0.270060240964 0.305395592593 88% => OK
STD word duration: 0.172611050296 0.189427763521 91% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 7.94979919679 101% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.91 6.2937751004 94% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.55 3.39508032129 75% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 54.78 59.7592369478 92% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.913 0.995987282463 92% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.693683826214 0.656000678711 106% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.0303030303 2.60215298798 116% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.93501277839 1.56821927147 123% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.36448806603 1.99336655568 119% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.365758987952 0.317803793328 115% => 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.