In this listening and viewing comprehension quiz you are going to watch and listen to Amy Cuddy’s TED Talk Your body language shapes who you are.
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- questions 1-5: testing your knowledge of and/or preparing you for the words used in this TED-talk
- questions 6-19: listening and viewing comprehension
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Question 1 of 191. Question
PRE-Reading: Match the definitions to the correct nouns.
- a simple and clever tip that can be used to manage time and activities efficiently
- a methodical examination
- the state of being without
- the liquid in your mouth
- a presentation of a business idea to potential investors
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So I want to start by offering you a free no-tech life hack
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I want to ask you to right now do a little audit of your body and what you’re doing with your body.
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So a handshake, or the lack of a handshake, can have us talking for weeks and weeks and weeks.
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and then we give them an opportunity to gamble, and then we take another saliva sample.
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It might be giving a pitch or giving a talk like this or doing a job interview
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Question 2 of 192. Question
PRE-Reading: Match the definitions to the correct nouns.
- a person who says he is somebody else in order to trick people
- a person who is as old as you or who has the same social status as you
- a person who is a medical doctor
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I don’t want to get there and then still feel like a fraud. I don’t want to feel like an impostor.
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Eventually I graduated from college. It took me four years longer than my peers
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their judgments of the physician’s niceness predict whether or not that physician will be sued.
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Question 3 of 193. Question
PRE-Reading: Match the definitions to the correct verbs.
- to fine-tune
- to complete something else or make it better
- to set up something so that it can be used
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I’m hoping that if you learn to tweak this a little bit, it could significantly change the way your life unfolds.
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So what we tend to do when it comes to power is that we complement the other’s nonverbals.
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So two minutes lead to these hormonal changes that configure your brain to basically be either assertive, confident and comfortable, or really stress-reactive, and feeling sort of shut down.
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Question 4 of 194. Question
PRE-Reading: Match the definitions to the correct verbs.
- to try to embarrass and annoy a public speaker by questions, comments etc
- to increase very suddenly
- to produce a feeling of familiarity or emotion
- to take someone to court
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So for five minutes, nothing, and this is worse than being heckled. People hate this.
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So this really spikes your cortisol.
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And that really resonated with me, because I want to tell you a little story about being an impostor and feeling like I’m not supposed to be here.
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their judgments of the physician’s niceness predict whether or not that physician will be sued
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Question 5 of 195. Question
PRE-Reading: Match the definitions to the correct adjectives.
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disrespectful
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too general
- of or relating to the job of state governor in the US
- existing since birth
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We’re interested in an awkward interaction, or a smile, or a contemptuous glance, or maybe a very awkward wink, or maybe even something like a handshake.
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And we make sweeping judgments and inferences from body language.
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Alex Todorov at Princeton has shown us that judgments of political candidates’ faces in just one second predict 70 percent of U.S. Senate and gubernatorial race outcomes
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She shows that people who are born with sight and people who are congenitally blind do this when they win at a physical competition.
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disrespectful
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Question 6 of 196. Question
First, read the question, then watch the video.
(beginning – 1:27)
What does Amy Cuddy ask her public to do as a preparation for a free no-tech life hack?CorrectIncorrect -
Question 7 of 197. Question
First, read the question, then watch the video.
(1:27 – 2:33)
Fill the gaps:-
“And there’s a lot of reason to believe that this is a way to look at this. So social scientists have spent a lot of time looking at the effects of our body language, or other people’s body language, on judgments. And we make sweeping judgments and from body language. And those judgments can predict really meaningful life outcomes like who we hire or promote, who we ask out on a date.”
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Question 8 of 198. Question
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(2:33 – 3:30)Amy Cuddy demonstrates the importance of the effects of body language by telling about the experiment of Nalini Ambady .
Nalini Ambady showed that that when people watch 30-second soundless clips of real physician-patient interactions, it can predict whether that physician
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Question 9 of 199. Question
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(3:24 – 4:00)What do we tend to forget according to Amy Cuddy when we think about nonverbals?
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Question 10 of 1910. Question
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(4:00 – 5:00)What is especially interesting about the expression known as pride according to Amy Cuddy?
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Question 11 of 1911. Question
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(5:00 – 5:29)Fill the gaps:
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“And this is what happens when you put together high and low power. So what we tend to do when it comes to power is that we the other’s nonverbals. So if someone is being really powerful with us, we tend to make ourselves smaller. We don’t them. We do the opposite of them.”
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Question 12 of 1912. Question
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(5:29 – 7:03)When Amy Cuddy watched classroom behaviour of students, she noticed that displaying power nonverbals seems to be related to two things.
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Question 13 of 1913. Question
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(7:03 – 9:02)Which of the following characteristics of powerful people does Amy Cuddy mention?
Powerful people tend toCorrectIncorrect -
Question 14 of 1914. Question
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(8:02 – 9:02)Fill the gaps:
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What do the hormones testosterone and cortisol regulate according to Amy Cuddy ?
Testosterone regulates .
Cortisol regulates .
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Question 15 of 1915. Question
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(9:02 – 10:24)I Ideally a leader should be dominant and relaxed at the same time.
II It has been shown that role change can lead to hormonal changes.CorrectIncorrect -
Question 16 of 1916. Question
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(10:24 – 12:41)True or False?
Our body language cannot influence how we think and feel about ourselves.
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Question 17 of 1917. Question
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(12:41 – 15:40)“But the next question, of course, is, can power posing for a few minutes really change your life in meaningful ways?”
In which specific situation did she put this to the test?CorrectIncorrect -
Question 18 of 1918. Question
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(15:40 – 19:38)Why does Amy Cuddy tell the story of her car accident?
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Question 19 of 1919. Question
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(19:38 – end)Which two things does she ask her audience to do?
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Who is Amy Cuddy
Amy Cuddy’s research on body language reveals that we can change other people’s perceptions — and perhaps even our own body chemistry — simply by changing body positions. More information about Amy Cuddy (source: www.ted.com/speakers)
What is TED
TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages.
(source: TED: our organization)