Soft Skill Development | NPTEL 2023 | Week 3 Assignment Solutions

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Soft Skills, a buzz word today, has attracted the attention of students, professionals and entrepreneurs all over the world. Every individual wants to get a coveted job. In a fast changing world, it’s important to prove multiple skills in different situations. The course aims at creating awareness among the stock holders of the corporate world in which the role of individuals as team players and also as responsible leaders materializes to a great extent.  The course, with its interactive and need based modules, will  address various challenges of communication as well as behavioural skills  faced by individuals at workplace and organizations in  bridging the gaps through  effective skills of interviews, group discussions, meeting management, presentations  and nuances of drafting various  business documents  for sustainability in today’s global world.

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Q1. Micro-expressions last for about

a) 1/4 second
b) 1 second
c) 1/2 second
d) 1/10 second

Answer: a)

Soft skill development NPTEL week 3 Solutions

Q2. Perception can take place to resolve ________ to make sense

a) unsolved problems
b) brain’s dilemmas
c) ambiguities
d) None of the above

Answer: c)

Soft skill development NPTEL week 3 Solutions

Q3. In ________, the hand ring gesture stands for zero.

a) UK
b) Belgium
c) France
d) Russia

Answer: c)

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Q4. In music, minor tones are associated with

a) Eagerness
b) Restlessness
c) Uneasiness
d) Sadness

Answer: d)

Q5. Consider the following statements.
A: Smiling is neither an in-born nor an acquired non-verbal communication
B: Certain facial expressions persist across cultures

a) Both A and B are correct
b) A is correct but B is wrong
c) B is correct but A is wrong
d) Both A and B are wrong

Answer: c)

Soft skill development NPTEL week 3 Solutions

Q6. Masking is related to

a) Squelched expressions
b) Micro-expressions
c) Beaming expression
d) Simpering

Answer: a)

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Q7. We can differentiate between two singers because of

a) Timbre
b) Pitch
c) Frequency
d) Amplitude

Answer: a)

Q8. Pitch is dependent on ________ of the note

a) tonality
b) quality
c) timbre
d) frequency

Answer: d)

Soft skill development NPTEL week 3 Solutions

Q9. Only __________ of us are genuine multitaskers.

a) 10%
b) 15%
c) 2%
d) 7%

Answer: a)

Soft skill development NPTEL week 3 Solutions

Q10. The direction in which we read a certain script is called

a) The halo effect
b) Anchoring bias
c) Apophenia
d) Scanning bias

Answer: d)

Q11. Consider the following sentences.
A: Two conflicting ways of completing incomplete data create visual illusions
B: Size-constancy of what is seen is dependent on subject-object relations

a) Both A and B are correct
b) A is correct but B is wrong
c) B is correct but A is wrong
d) Both A and B are wrong

Answer: a)

Q12. Consider the following statements.
A: 63% of us are able to correctly read facial expressions
B: Learning how to hide facial expressions is common in social contexts.

a) Both A and B are correct
b) A is correct but B is wrong
c) B is correct but A is wrong
d) Both A and B are wrong

Answer: c)

Q13. Which of the following is not an element of surveillance in a world dominated by visual culture?

a) Security
b) Voyeurism
c) Entertainment
d) None of the above

Answer: d)

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Q14. Consider the following statements:
A: There is no guarantee that the real is being actually mediated through mediating devices; for all we know, an AI may be anchoring news channels.
B: The game addicts are caught in the problem of simulacrum; they live in multiple realities that cannot co-exits.

a) Both A and B are true
b) Both A and B are false
c) Only A is true
d) Only B is true

Answer: c)

Q15. Leaning back as a gesture in Normal Rockwell’s Tom Swayer is a sign of

a) Aggression
b) Leadership
c) Subordination
d) Fear

Answer: b)

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Q1. Tempo is the linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.

a) True
b) False

Answer: b) False

Q2. The false facial expressions are more symmetrical that the genuine facial expressions.

a) True
b) False

Answer: b) False

Q3. ___________ are innocent lies which we continuously keep on telling, showing, displaying in various ways in a social face, because that is expected from us.

a) White lies
b) Bold-faced lies
c) Exaggerated lies
d) Deceptive lies

Answer: a) White lies

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Q4. In our today’s day to day lives, our experience of a visual to a very great extent is mediated/interfaced by ___________.

a) Visuals
b) Auditory
c) Screens
d) None of the above

Answer: c) Screens

Q5. What is the meaning of visual culture?

a) Culturally driven visuals
b) Screens, animations, paintings
c) Meaning making through visuals
d) None of the above

Answer: c) Meaning making through visuals

Q6. Which element is added in visualizing that make it different from seeing?

a) other senses are getting transferred into visuals
b) imagination is getting transferred into visuals
c) imageries are getting transferred into visuals
d) seeing with understanding

Answer: c) imageries are getting transferred into visuals

Soft skill development NPTEL week 3 Solutions

Q7. What is the meaning of perception?

a) Sensation and Interpretation
b) Conceptualization
c) Visualization
d) Understanding

Answer: a) Sensation and Interpretation

Q8. What is the tendency of brain to complete that which is incomplete called?

a) Illusion
b) Subjective perception
c) Orientation
d) Attention

Answer: b) Subjective perception

Q9. ____________ has a significant assocation with colours and strongly evokes visual images.

a) Culture
b) Society
c) Music
d) Lines

Answer: a) Culture

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Q10. According to the research, non-verbal communication contributes ___________ among the various components of communication.

a) 7%
b) 10%
c) 38%
d) 55%

Answer: d) 55%

Q11. Smiling and laughing are regulated by various factors. One of the significant among them is __________.

a) Behaviour
b) Socio-cultural strata
c) Physiology
d) None of the above

Answer: a) Behaviour

Q12. In the Picasso’s painting displayed in the presentation, which is the most important non-verbal (body language) indicator of sadness?

a) use of colours
b) hand on guitar
c) drooped head
d) None of the above

Answer: c) drooped head

Q13. _______________ are the expressions which are suppressed before they can appear fully.

a) Micro-epxressions
b) Macro-expressions
c) Squelched expressions
d) Sadness and fear

Answer: c) Squelched expressions

Soft skill development NPTEL week 3 Solutions

Q14. Read the following statements and chose the CORRECT option.

a) Sound is not associated with culture
b) Sound cannot trigger certain kinds of information and associated behaviour.
c) Sound triggers certain kinds of information and associated behaviour.
d) None of the above

Answer: c) Sound triggers certain kinds of information and associated behaviour.

Q15. What are the various bases on which the preception of colours changes?
i. Age and gender
ii. Culture and class
iii. Current trend and fashion

a) Only i and ii are correct
b) Only i and iii are correct
c) All i, ii and iii are correct
d) None of the above

Answer: c) All i, ii and iii are correct

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