Body Language Quiz

Questions

1. Related to body language, Kinaesthetics (or Kinesthetics) is the study of?

   1. Parenting
   2. Fashion
   3. Learning Styles
   4. Punishment

2. The human body is capable of how many different movements?

   1. 2,000
   2. 26,000
   3. 93,000
   4. 700,000

3. To what degree can body language be 'faked' (to mislead people)?

   1. All signals
   2. No signals
   3. Some signals
   4. By teenagers only

4. Body language - when comparing people - varies according to a person's age, condition and context?

   1. Definitely
   2. Rarely
   3. Never
   4. Only among teenagers

5. When a person tilts his/her head to one side this generally indicates?

   1. Suspicion
   2. Anger
   3. Submissiveness/trust
   4. Readiness to run away/fear

6. According to generally accepted 20/21st century body language theory, which two of these are not among the 'Six Universal Facial Expressions': Happiness, Hunger, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, Surprise, Anger, or Drunkenness?

7. According to research, the perception and interpretation of body language is generally strongest in?

   1. Men
   2. Women
   3. Babies
   4. Young people

8. When a person touches his/her nose with finger(s) while talking, this generally indicates?

   1. Honesty
   2. Fabrication
   3. Desire
   4. Impatience

9. Body language is considered to be?

   1. Wholly genetically inherited ('nature')
   2. Wholly conditioned and learned ('nurture')
   3. A mixture of the two ('nature and nurture')

10. Author of the 1971 book 'Body Language', which helped popularize the subject, was Julius?

    1. Fast
    2. Slow
    3. Medium
    4. Spin

11. Related to body language, the communications/psychology concept NLP is called fully?

    1. Non-Language Psychology
    2. New Language Principles
    3. Neuro-Linguistic Programming
    4. No Lingo Parlez

12. When a person holds his/her chin up this generally indicates?

    1. Submissiveness
    2. Fear
    3. Defiance/confidence
    4. Approval

13. Body language is also known as (What?), derived from Greek, meaning motion?

    1. Aesthetics
    2. Kinesics
    3. Biometrics
    4. Mnemonics

14. The modern 'science' of body language/kinesics was established in the?

    1. 1850s
    2. 1910s
    3. 1950s
    4. 1990s

15. Physiognomy, related historically to body language, interprets human characteristics from a person's?

    1. Face
    2. Movement
    3. Sleeping
    4. Eating and drinking

16. Besides effects of drugs and darkness, dilated (enlarged) pupils in a person's eyes are generally an indication of?

    1. Concentration/attention
    2. Desire/attraction
    3. Fear/disgust
    4. Hunger/thirst

17. Within body language, a person's surrounding space, and positioning with objects/others are?

    1. Very significant
    2. Unimportant
    3. Impossible to interpret
    4. Only applicable to teenagers

18. Who wrote 'The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals' in 1872, considered the start of body language science?

    1. Sigmund Freud
    2. Desmond Morris
    3. Charles Darwin
    4. Charles Dickens

19. Within body language the physical space/closeness between people is significant and called?

    1. Agoraphobics
    2. Demographics
    3. Proxemics
    4. Ergonomics

20. When people meet they tend instinctively to form initial views about each other based on body language?

    1. Within a few seconds
    2. After two minutes
    3. After half an hour
    4. Rarely inside an hour

21. When a person moves his/her eyes left, this generally indicates what sort of thinking/communication?

    1. Creative
    2. Factual recall
    3. Fearful
    4. Unhappy

22. Paralinguistics, typically defined outside of body language, refers to?

    1. Speech intonation/sound
    2. Crying
    3. Vocal pauses
    4. Swearing and blasphemy

23. Body language is also generally called, and categorized within, what well-established term?

    1. Secret messages
    2. Unconscious mime
    3. Non-verbal communication
    4. Histrionics

24. Reliable interpretation of a single isolated body language gesture is possible?

    1. Always
    2. Usually
    3. Frequently: or Never