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
