Soft Skill Development | NPTEL 2023 | Week 6 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. Is there a need of continuous innovations for the sustainability and profitability of organizations?

a) Yes
b) No

Answer: a) Yes

Q2. Does an increase in critical thinking enhance one’s ability to understand complex phenomena, make important decisions, solve complex problems and resolve difficult issues?

a) Yes
b) No

Answer: a) Yes

Q3. Which of the following is not a component of creativity?

a) Novelty
b) Negotiation
c) Originality
d) Usefulness

Answer: b) Negotiation

Soft skill development NPTEL week 6 Solutions

Q4. Creativity in technological inventions is ________________.

a) collective
b) collaborative
c) group based
d) individualistic

Answer: b) collaborative

Q5. Which part of the human brain is most activated during creative thinking?

a) Occipital lobe
b) Frontal lobe
c) Temporal lobe
d) Parietal lobe

Answer: b) Frontal lobe

Q6. When survival instinct is triggered, _____________ is the dominant attitude we see.

a) negativity
b) foreclosure
c) optimization
d) fleeing

Answer: c) optimization

Soft skill development NPTEL week 6 Solutions

Q7. Western traditions tend to associate creativity with ______________.

a) Individualism
b) Collectivity
c) Communities
d) Renaissance

Answer: a) Individualism

Q8. According to Guilford, creativity comes from ______________.

a) Convergent thinking
b) Divergent thinking
c) Conflicting thinking
d) Deviating thinking

Answer: b) Divergent thinking

Q9. In which technique of idea generation no one is allowed to judge or question any idea until the idea generation process is completed.

a) Slipcard writing
b) Nominal group
c) Brainstorming
d) Face-to-face interacting group

Answer: c) Brainstorming

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Q10. Which of the following is not a component of the creative thinking process?

a) Incubation
b) Illumination
c) Preparation
d) Execution

Answer: d) Execution

Q11. What you should not rely on when making a judgement?

a) Intuition
b) Common sense
c) Gossip
d) Past-experience

Answer: c) Gossip

Soft skill development NPTEL week 6 Solutions

Q12. Consider the following statements.
A. Yellow hat thinking allows us to deal with negativity
B. Blue hat thinking induces out-of-the-box thinking

a) Both A and B are correct
b) Both A and B are incorrect
c) Only A is correct
d) Only B is correct

Answer: c) Only A is correct

Q13. Which of the following components of creativity are correct?
A. Novelty
B. Originality
C. Usefulness
D. Negotiation

a) Only A is correct
b) Only A and B are correct
c) Only A, B and C are correct
d) All A, B, C and D are correct

Answer: c) Only A, B and C are correct

Soft skill development NPTEL week 6 Solutions

Q14. Which of the following false assumptions about creativity are true?
A. Some people are creative while others are not
B. Creativity is something people have or don’t have
C. Creativity is disruptive and counter-producive
D. Creativity is only relevant in certain departments (e.g., design, publicity, marketing)

a) Only A is correct
b) Only B is correct
c) Only C and D are correct
d) All A, B, C and D are correct

Answer: d) All A, B, C and D are correct

Soft skill development NPTEL week 6 Solutions

Q15. What are the dispositions according to Beyer (1995) are possessed by Critical thinkers?
A. Open-mindedness
B. Fair-mindedness
C. Reasoning
D. Internal locus of control

a) Only A and B are correct
b) Only B, C and D are correct
c) Only A, B and C are correct
d) All A, B, C and D are correct

Answer: c) Only A, B and C are correct

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