Emotional Intelligence Week 1 NPTEL Assignment Answers 2025

NPTEL Emotional Intelligence Week 1 Assignment Answers 2024

1. The theory of emotion focusing on the activation of visceral body changes

a. James Lanzi Theory
b. Cannon-Bard Theory
c. Schachter-Singer Theory
d. Cognitive Appraisal Theory
Answer :- a
Explanation: James-Lange Theory (sometimes misspelled as Lanzi) emphasizes that physiological arousal leads to emotional experience — i.e., we feel emotion because of bodily reactions.

2. Is “I’m Okay” a kind of emotion?

a. Yes
b. No
Answer :- b
Explanation: “I’m okay” is a statement about one’s condition, not an emotion itself like joy, anger, or sadness.

3. “How a person reacts to an event” is characterized by

a. Feeling Component of emotion
b. Bodily Arousal Component of emotion
c. Purposive Component of emotion
d. Social expressive component of emotion
Answer :- d
Explanation: Social expressive component deals with how emotions are expressed through facial expressions, tone, and behavior — which reflects a person’s reaction.

4. In the full form of “CAS”, “S” stands for

a. Successive
b. System
c. Simultaneous
d. Social
Answer :- b
Explanation: CAS = Cognitive-Affective System, where “System” reflects the integrated nature of emotion and cognition.

5. The first intelligence test was constructed solely for mid-career level professionals

a. True
b. False
Answer :- b
Explanation: The first intelligence test (by Binet & Simon) was designed to assess school children, not professionals.

6. Guilford categorizes _________types of thinking

a. Five
b. Four
c. Three
d. Two
Answer :- d
Explanation: Guilford categorized thinking into convergent and divergent — hence two types.

7. Roberg Stemberg gave triarchic process model

a. True
b. False
Answer :- a
Explanation: Robert Sternberg proposed the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence, which includes analytical, creative, and practical intelligence.

8. Marion Perlmutter gave

a. Organismic Approach
b. Dual process model
c. Three phase system model
d. None of these
Answer :- c
Explanation: Marion Perlmutter proposed the Three Phase System Model in understanding memory across the lifespan.

9. “Processing” in three phase system model is pragmatic intelligence

a. True
b. False
Answer :- b
Explanation: “Processing” refers to mechanistic or cognitive abilities, not pragmatic intelligence, which relates to wisdom and everyday problem solving.

10. According to Baltes 1993 “training and mentoring” is

a. General personal condition
b. Facilitative life context
c. Specific expertise condition
d. None of these
Answer :- c
Explanation: Training and mentoring help in building specific expertise and are considered part of expertise condition in Baltes’ framework.

11. Wisdom is expressed in terms of care, concern and commitment

a. True
b. False
Answer :- a
Explanation: Wisdom involves empathy, care, and commitment toward others and life challenges.

12. “Sensitivity to issues related to the meaning of life, death and other aspect of human condition” is

a. Naturalistic Emotions
b. Bodily- Kinesthetics Emotions
c. Existential Emotions
d. Interpersonal Emotions
Answer :- c
Explanation: Existential emotions include sensitivity to profound life themes like death, meaning, and existence.

13. “Vocabulary Knowledge” is an example of

a. Crystallized Intelligence
b. Broad Visual Perception
c. Broad retrieval ability
d. Fluid Intelligence
Answer :- a
Explanation: Vocabulary knowledge is accumulated knowledge, a classic example of crystallized intelligence.

14. Gardener proposed_______ distinct types of intelligence

a. Six
b. Four
c. Seven
d. Nine
Answer :- d
Explanation: Howard Gardner originally proposed 7, later expanded to 9 types of intelligence including musical, interpersonal, existential, etc.

15. According to Spearman, which of the following is not a specific ability factor

a. Mechanical
b. Artificial
c. Arithmetical
d. Logical
Answer :- b
Explanation: Artificial is not among the “s” (specific) factors listed by Spearman. Others like mechanical, arithmetical, and logical are valid.