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Body Language Key to Professional Success Week 1 Answers (July-Dec 2025)
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Question 1. Who among the following wrote The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)?
a) Ray Birdwhistell
b) George L Trager
c) Charles Darwin
d) None of the above
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Question 2. Albert Mehrabian suggested that the total impact of a message is a combination of: Verbal content, Paralanguage, and Body Language. Where Paralanguage comprises_________.
a) 100%
b) 7%
c) 35%
d) 58%
Question 3. Which one of the following persons have described Body Language as the “communication of personal feelings, emotions, attitudes, and thoughts through body movements – gestures, postures, positions, and distance, either consciously or involuntarily, more often subconsciously, and accompanied or unaccompanied by the spoken language.”
a) Hedwig Lewis
b) Paul Ekman
c) Joe Navarro
d) Ray Birdwhistell
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Question 4. Who has coined the term “Proxemics”:
a) Ray Birdwhistell
b) Edward T Hall
c) Albert Mehrabian
d) Paul Ekman
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Question 5. Proxemics behaviour is a function of eight different dimensions and which of the following best describes the amount of eye contact as well as the nature of eye contact, whether it is sharp, clear, peripheral or whether there is an avoidance:
a) Olfaction Code
b) Thermal Code
c) Retinal Combination
d) Kinesthetic Code
Question 6. According to Edward T Hall, what are the characteristics of High Context Culture?
a) Communication is highly symbolic.
b) Communication usually is polite and respectful. It maintains a certain proxemic distance, but at the same time, it is never direct and integrates by similarity and harmony.
c) Both a and b
d) None of the Above.
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Question 7. In the context of controlling attention through eyes which of the following combination stands true:
a) 83% through sight, 11% Hearing & 6% other senses
b) 73% through sight, 21% Hearing & 6% other senses
c) 50% through sight, 25% Hearing & 25% other senses
d) None of the above
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Question 8. It is found that “People who have a history of ………. are frequently observed to scan the environment rapidly.
a) Attention- Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
b) Attention – Implicit Hypoactivity Disorder
c) Cognition- Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
d) Cognition- Deficit Hypoactivity Disorder
Question 9. Choose the option that does not define the features of Constricted vs Dilated Pupils:
a) I’m bored vs. I’m interested
b) I’m disgusted vs. I’m attracted
c) I’m thinking hard vs. My mind is not working
d) I don’t recognize anything vs. I have seen or heard this before a
Question 10. Julius Fast popularised ‘Body language’, a lay term for ‘nonverbal’ aspects of communication, in the 1970s with the publication of a book. The name of the book is:
a) Body language
b) Telling Lies
c) What Every Body Is Saying
d) The Secrets of Body Language
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