Gimli notices that he says, "um" a lot as he is speaking. Being aware that he is recording the number of times he makes that utterance is likely to:

a. Reduce the utterance on its own
b. Increase the utterance as he is paying attention to it
c. Have no effect on his speaking habits
d. More information is needed to answer this question.


A.

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