Enhancing Soft Skills and Personality Answer Key For Assignment 01 Week 01

This document provides the answers to multiple choice and true/false questions about soft skills and personality traits. The questions cover topics like habits, growth mindset, stereotype threat, relationships, communication skills, and more. The multiple choice questions have between 4-5 answer options, and the true/false questions require selecting either true or false.

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Enhancing Soft Skills and Personality

Answer Key for Assignment 01 ‐ Week 01
I. MCQ’s
1. Which of the following is NOT true about habits?
 There are good and bad habits
 Good habits are easily formed
 Bad habits, even when changed, leave a mark on the individual
 Bad habits are easily formed

2. Growth Mindset people believe that:
 Change is dangerous
 Their abilities can be developed
 Learning is not possible after college
 Their abilities are determined by luck

3. What does stereotype threat mean?
 The risk of confirming to fixed, reductive images
 The risk of confirming to self‐centered behavior
 The risk of undertaking a flexible character
 The risk of flowing with the current

4. “Females could never perform well in mathematics” – this type of mindset represents:
 Hawthorne effect
 High intelligence of males
 Stereotype threat
 All of the these

5. How are students’ mindset shaped?
 By their day to day experiences
 Observations
 Interactions
 All the these

6. Based on the infographic by Chloe Chong, how many signs represent that a growth
mindset person is mentally stronger than others?
 7
 6
 8
 10

7. What is/are the factor/s for processing excellence?
 Self‐actualization
 Moving from one version to other enhanced version
 Both (a) and (b)
 None of these

8. Who said: “Seek first to understand and then to be understood”?
 Steve Jobs
 Steven Covey
 Abraham Maslow
 Danah Zohar

9. For ideal growth mind set, human relationships should be:
 Critical
 Motivating
 Comforting
 All of these

10. Which factor/s contribute/s to the first best impression in a professional context?
 Punctuality
 Dressing sense
 Body language
 All of these

11. Who gave the definition for ‘Stereotypes Threat’?
 Richardson and Steele
 Addison and Steele
 Aronson and Richardson
 None of these

12. In which year did Elton Mayo conduct his experiments at the Hawthorne Plant?
 1920
 1930
 1925
 1935

13. Which among the following is an example of hard skill?
 Gardening
 Adaptability
 Coordination
 Conflict‐resolution

14. How do people with fixed mindset handle criticisms from others?
 Sometimes they accept, sometimes they don’t
 They always accept
 They don’t accept
 They accept but keep on arguing

15. What is the fundamental goal of this course?
 Giving you a certificate
   Inculcating rote learning
   Connecting you with an IIT professor
 Training your mind to think

16. Which of the following is not true about listening?
 Listening is an integral part of effective communication
 Only speaking consumes energy, not listening
 Unlike hearing, listening is a mental activity
 While listening, one should be free from any prejudice

17. The bumblebee can fly because:
 It understands the aerodynamic laws
 Its bodyweight is in right proportion to its wingspan
 Its effort seems to defy the laws of aerodynamics
 All of these

18. Nomophobia is caused by:
 Excessive addiction to internet browsing
 Excessive addiction to computer games
 Excessive addiction to mobile phones
 Excessive addiction to calculators

19. Dopamine induces:
 Pain
 Pleasure
 Guilt
 Anger

20. Identify the trait of a bad e‐mail:
 Mixing up of many languages and idioms
 Use of formal salutation
 Regard for punctuation, spelling, and grammar
 Mailing only to the concerned people

II. True or False
21. Fixed Mindset people prefer to stay in their comfort zone.
 True
 False

22. “Everything is possible” – is a thinking of fixed mindset people.
 True
 False

23. “Time Optimization” is a soft skill.
   True
 False

24. Most of the habits, whether good or bad, are formed by peer group influence and/or
environment.
 True
 False

25. A stereotype is an objective, proper, and realistic picture of a group or an individual.
 True
 False