Using the example from the lecture, explain what behavior modification is and how it works.

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Using the example from the lecture, explain what behavior modification is and how it works.

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Average: 5 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 482.0 592.248995984 81% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 124.0 155.574297189 80% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.88709677419 3.80514564318 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.33699396548 3.525876923 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.94359858053 1.79077849142 109% => OK
Unique words: 83.0 93.7148594378 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.66935483871 0.604071249207 111% => OK
Syllable count: 154.8 185.844578313 83% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.041860371174 0.0650381309087 64% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 9.0 4.35341365462 207% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 13.7777777778 68.503853103 20% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 12.308784377 21.3332995233 58% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 6.40333333333 25.9943957902 25% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.99545383325 7.84667146824 76% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 45.0 42.0642570281 107% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.75555555556 4.02192344571 69% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.88745043267 3.1217529195 60% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.20688888889 1.45093177766 83% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.715839281224 0.99851816184 72% => 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: 8.83 7.12997991968 124% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.232368421053 0.185688545393 125% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.256078053587 0.155154303396 165% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 43.96 47.1480722892 93% => OK
Average word duration: 0.354516129032 0.305395592593 116% => OK
STD word duration: 0.202481997761 0.189427763521 107% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 14.0 7.94979919679 176% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 10.78 6.2937751004 171% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.13 3.39508032129 92% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.63 59.7592369478 96% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.9605 0.995987282463 96% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.659378795766 0.656000678711 101% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.15165712303 2.60215298798 83% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.44022210654 1.56821927147 92% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.88808007279 1.99336655568 95% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.452548322581 0.317803793328 142% => OK

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.