GATE 2022 XH5 (Psychology) – Previous Year Questions with Solutions
All 65 questions of GATE 2022 XH5 (Psychology) with answers and explanations. Read each question, then practise it by topic or as a full paper.
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- Question 1 – Inhaling the smoke from a burning could you quickly.
- Question 2 – A sphere of radius r cm is packed in a box of cubical shape. What should be the minimum volume (in cm3) of the box that can enclose the sphere?
- Question 3 – Pipes P and Q can fill a storage tank in full with water in 10 and 6 minutes, respectively. Pipe R draws the water out from the storage tank at a rate…
- Question 4 – Six persons P, Q, R, S, T and U are sitting around a circular table facing the center not necessarily in the same order. Consider the following…
- Question 5 – A building has several rooms and doors as shown in the top view of the building given below. The doors are closed initially. What is the minimum…
- Question 6 – Rice, a versatile and inexpensive source of carbohydrate, is a critical component of diet worldwide. Climate change, causing extreme weather, poses a…
- Question 7 – A game consists of spinning an arrow around a stationary disk as shown below. When the arrow comes to rest, there are eight equally likely outcomes.…
- Question 8 – Consider the following inequalities. (i) 3p - q < 4 (ii) 3q - p < 12 Which one of the following expressions below satisfies the above two…
- Question 9 – Given below are three statements and four conclusions drawn based on the statements. Statement 1: Some engineers are writers. Statement 2: No writer…
- Question 10 – Which one of the following sets of pieces can be assembled to form a square with a single round hole near the center? Pieces cannot overlap.
- Question 11 – A relationship is expressed as Iodine : Goitre. The pair(s) of words showing SIMILAR relationship is/are
- Question 12 – Three individuals are named P, Q, and R. Together they have a total of fifteen children of which nine are boys. P has three girls and Q has same…
- Question 13 – A sentence has been given below. The train will leave at 8:30 PM, we **have been** ready by 7:30 PM, so that we can reach the station on time. To make…
- Question 14 – Complete the sentence correctly using the options given below. Hastings (p) developed as a holiday resort after (q) .
- Question 15 – The Arecibo telescope does not resemble what most of us think of when we hear the word telescope. Its reflective surface covers an area of 20 acres,…
- Question 16 – Tailgating another vehicle is unsafe and illegal. Many rear-end collisions are caused by drivers following too close to the vehicle in front of them.…
- Question 17 – There are three separate, but equal-sized boxes. Inside each box, there are two separate small boxes. Inside each of the small boxes, there are four…
- Question 18 – In a specific language, xer dan means “big horse”, liro cas means “red tomato” and dum cas dan means “big red barn”. The equivalent word for barn in…
- Question 19 – Park street is parallel to Rock street. Garden street is perpendicular (90°) to Lake street. Lake street is parallel to Rock street. For the situation…
- Question 20 – Six examinations are required to be conducted in a week starting from Sunday to Saturday. Hindi is not scheduled on the first day and English is not…
- Question 21 – A passage consists of 6 sentences. The first and sixth sentences of the passage are at their correct positions, while the middle four sentences…
- Question 22 – For a painting to succeed, it is essential that the painter and his public agree about what is significant. The subject of the painting may have a…
- Question 23 – Vinod has a pre-determined route. Each morning he delivers 37 newspapers to customers in his neighborhood. It takes Vinod 50 minutes to deliver all…
- Question 24 – Cholera, typhoid, diphtheria and tuberculosis cause huge number of deaths. Poor quality drinking water has always been the world’s greatest single…
- Question 25 – Shark’s teeth have evolved to correspond to the diet of each particular species of shark. Consequently, the teeth of the great white shark bear little…
- Question 26 – A particular school management wants to contact all parents, all businessmen and all engineers. The following statistics are available with the…
- Question 27 – The construct validity of a test is assessed through .
- Question 28 – Memory involves three stages. Find out the correct sequence from the following:
- Question 29 – Erickson’s fifth stage of psychosocial development is
- Question 30 – Test developers use reverse coding of certain items in a scale to offset the effects of .
- Question 31 – According to Kohlberg’s theory of Moral development, at which level individuals judge morality in terms of abstract principles?
- Question 32 – You had been driving a car with manual-gear for 5 years. Recently, you started driving a new car with an auto- gear. If you are having any trouble, it…
- Question 33 – Which of the following is not a behaviour therapy technique?
- Question 34 – According to Robert Sternberg, “Street Smarts” refers to –
- Question 35 – Research design in which several age groups of participants are studied at one particular point of time is called:
- Question 36 – Proximo-distal direction of development explains the nature of the development from .
- Question 37 – A cricket player who could not play an easy ball and gets out without scoring any run and blames the pitch, is an expression of .
- Question 38 – The process through which we seek to identify the causes of other’s behaviour and gain knowledge of their stable traits and dispositions is known as .
- Question 39 – Which of the following techniques is used to measure the variations in the activity of Ascending Reticular Activating System (ARAS)?
- Question 40 – The statement “I can do no wrong, but, you can do no right”, refers to .
- Question 41 – Which of the following is a qualitative research design where learned experiences of individuals are examined in their life world?
- Question 42 – Which part of the brain is responsible for transferring information from STM to LTM?
- Question 43 – The mean of a distribution is 14 and standard deviation is 5. What would be the value of coefficient of variation? (round off to two decimal places)
- Question 44 – Swami gets a test score of 190, the mean is 150 and SD is 25. Assuming normal distribution, the Z score would be . (round off to one decimal place)
- Question 45 – Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct regarding Multiple Analysis of Variance (MANOVA)?
- Question 46 – Which of the following statements is/are related to observational learning?
- Question 47 – Find out the statements which are related to different types of reliability?
- Question 48 – Which of the following statement(s) regarding test scores and their interpretations is/are correct?
- Question 49 – Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct regarding the negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
- Question 50 – Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct about children with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)?
- Question 51 – Which of the following assumptions are correct about equity theory?
- Question 52 – Which of the following statement(s) are related to Bem’s theory of self-perception?
- Question 53 – Which of the following statements are related to social cognition?
- Question 54 – Which of the following theory(ies) is/are related to work motivation?
- Question 55 – Which of the following are not part of Thurstone’s theory of primary mental abilities?
- Question 56 – Which of the following are the competencies of a Bystander?
- Question 57 – Which of the following functions are related to pancreas?
- Question 58 – Which of the following psychologists do not belong to behaviourism?
- Question 59 – Which of the following theories of emotion explains that arousal must occur before experience of emotion?
- Question 60 – Who among the following psychologists do not belong to the domain of emotional intelligence?
- Question 61 – Which of the followings are the projective tests of personality?
- Question 62 – Which of the followings are not learning disorders?
- Question 63 – Which of the following concepts are not related to Piaget’s theory of cognitive development?
- Question 64 – Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct regarding exploratory factor analysis (EFA) technique?
- Question 65 – If you want to examine the difference between the work values of employees in public and private sector and the relationship of work values with…