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Public Speaking Nptel Week 3 Assignment Answers (July-Dec 2025)
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Question 1. Which of the following is not considered a non-verbal anxiety behaviour?
a) Gross bodily movement
b) Fidgeting
c) Lack of emphasis
d) Shuffling feet
Question 2. ____ is the key for overcoming glossophobia.
a) Rigidity
b) Practice
c) Medication
d) Use of Humour
Question 3. Emotional intelligence includes the ability to accurately perceive emotions, to access and generate emotions so as to assist thought, to understand emotions and emotional knowledge, however, it is not responsible for regulating emotions in an individual.
a) True
b) False
Question 4. Deardorff’s model of intercultural competence illustrates that acquiring cultural intelligence and awareness is a linear process.
a) True
b) False
Question 5. What elements are included in Deardorff’s model of intercultural competence?
a) Attitudes and Knowledge
b) Internal and External outcomes
c) Skills
d) All of the above
Question 6. Which of the following best describes the term ‘Glossophobia’?
a) Fear of public speaking
b) Fear of large audience
c) Fear of stage
d) Fear of outdoors
Question 7. An emotional state may be considered a function of a state of physiological ______
a) Cognition
b) Function
c) Arousal
d) Dysregulation
Question 8. What does positive psychology, as defined by Martin Seligman, focus on?
a) Character strengths
b) Compassion
c) Both A and B
d) Only A
Question 9. What acronym does Martin Seligman use to define the components of the “good life”?
a) PARMA
b) PERMA
c) PEMA
d) PAMA
Question 10. Who propounded ‘Positive psychology’?
a) James Peterson
b) Matthew Seligman
c) Martin Muller
d) Martin Seligman
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