Enhancing Soft Skills and Personality

Answer Key for Week 1 Assignment

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Various types of conflicts can be categorized as:

 Intrapersonal and Intragroup
 Interpersonal and intergroup
 Both of these
 None of these

2. Nomophobia implies:

 Excessive addiction to internet browsing

 Excessive addiction to computer games
 Excessive addiction to mobile phones
 Excessive addiction to calculators

3. Fixed Mindset people:

 Embrace new challenges
 Think that everything is possible
 Love to explore new things
 Don’t accept criticism

4. Dopamine induces:
 Pain
 Pleasure
 Guilt
 Madness

5. Identify the trait of a bad e-mail:

 Use of formal salutation
 Regard for punctuation, spelling, and grammar
 Mixing up of many languages and idioms
 Mailing only to the concerned people
6. One’s knowledge acquiring ability depends on:
 One’s gender identity
 One’s physical appearance
 One’s perception about oneself as a learner
 None of these

7. Identify the trait of babies that indicate their growth mindset:

 They cry a lot
 They are never afraid of exploring new things
 They sleep for long hours
 All of these

8. __________ refers to the alteration of behaviour in the subjects of a study due to their
awareness of being observed and studied.
 Stereotype threat
 Pigeonhole threat
 Hawthorne effect
 Peer pressure

9. According to Good, Rattan, and Dweck, sense of belonging leads to:

 Mediocrity
 Absence of interest
 Better performance
 Narcissism

10. In order to develop a growth mindset, one must learn to live with:
 Flattering people
 Patronizing people
 Critical people
 Fun-loving people

11. Identify the way one can develop a growth mindset:

 Taking failure as an end in itself
  Avoiding risks in terms of learning
 Giving more time and effort to the task
 Trying to convince others of one’s growth mindset

12. Complete the following quote by Michael Jordan: “I can accept failure, everyone fails at
something. But I can’t accept __________.”
 a quick success
 not trying
 doing it badly
 failure in a basketball match

13. Fill in the blank:

Carol Dweck’s book is called, Mindset: The New __________.

 Psychology of Sentiments
 Psychology of Success
 Physiology of Success
 Physiology of Sentiments

14. Growth Mindset people believe that:

 Change is dangerous
 Their abilities can be developed and they can flourish in life
 Learning is useless
 Their abilities are fixed

15. Identify the functions of Nonverbal Communication

 Repeat what is said verbally
 Contradict verbal meaning
 Complement or clarify verbal meaning
 All of these

16. Non-verbal communication involves:

 Written words
 Gestures and postures
  Spoken words
 None of these

17. To make the first best impression in an interview, one should:

 Be careful about body language
 Be careful about dress code
 Be punctual
 All of these

18. Self-management skills include:

 Self-awareness, self-confidence, stress handling, spiritual intelligence
 Self-love, self-awareness, social-awareness, activism
 Self-centredness, self-confidence, repeated failure, resistance
 Self-laceration, self-confidence, resistance, activism

19. Which of the following is a desirable quality of an active listener?

 Influencing the speaker with domineering presence
 Engaging in self-talk
 Listening partially
 Seeking clarifications

20. Highly successful people:

 Focus 100% on the least important goal
 Spends extra time on tasks that can be otherwise delegated
 Do the extra work with a smile, even if they don’t get paid
 Do not do anything outside work hours

True/False

21. Bad stress is called “eustress.” False

22. Fixed Mindset People focus on limitations. True
23. The cyborgian shift has considerably influenced human body and mind. True
24. Babies have a fixed mindset. False
25. Having a mindset that gives favourable results and positive response from the people
around is desirable. True