GATE 2023 XH5 (Psychology) – Previous Year Questions with Solutions
All 65 questions of GATE 2023 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 – Rafi told Mary, “I am thinking of watching a film this weekend.” The following reports the above statement in indirect speech: Rafi told Mary that he…
- Question 2 – Permit : : : Enforce : Relax (By word meaning)
- Question 3 – Given a fair six-faced dice where the faces are labelled ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’, ‘5’, and ‘6’, what is the probability of getting a ‘1’ on the first roll…
- Question 4 – A recent survey shows that 65% of tobacco users were advised to stop consuming tobacco. The survey also shows that 3 out of 10 tobacco users attempted…
- Question 5 – How many triangles are present in the given figure?
- Question 6 – Students of all the departments of a college who have successfully completed the registration process are eligible to vote in the upcoming college…
- Question 7 – Which one of the following options represents the given graph?
- Question 8 – Which one of the options does NOT describe the passage below or follow from it? We tend to think of cancer as a ‘modern’ illness because its metaphors…
- Question 9 – The digit in the unit’s place of the product 71000 3999 is .
- Question 10 – A square with sides of length 6 cm is given. The boundary of the shaded region is defined by two semi-circles whose diameters are the sides of the…
- Question 11 – Which word below best describes the idea of being both Spineless and Cowardly?
- Question 12 – Choose the right preposition to fill up the blank: The whole family got together Diwali
- Question 13 – Select the correct option to fill in all the blanks to complete the passage: The (i) factor amid this turbulence has been the (ii) of high-octane,…
- Question 14 – The following passage consists of 6 sentences. The first and sixth sentences of the passage are at their correct positions, while the middle four…
- Question 15 – The population of a country increased by 5% from 2020 to 2021. Then, the population decreased by 5% from 2021 to 2022. By what percentage did the…
- Question 16 – The words Thin: Slim: Slender are related in some way. Identify the correct option(s) that reflect(s) the same relationship:
- Question 17 – A pandemic like situation hit the country last year, resulting in loss of human life and economic depression. To improve the condition of its…
- Question 18 – Six students, Arif, Balwinder, Chintu, David, Emon and Fulmoni appeared in the GATE-XH exam in 2022. Balwinder scores less than Chintu in XH-B1, but…
- Question 19 – Select the correct relation between E and F. E = x1+x and F = -x1-x, x > 1
- Question 20 – A code language is formulated thus: Vowels in the original word are replaced by the next vowel from the list of vowels, A-E-I-O-U (For example, E is…
- Question 21 – The stranger is by nature no "owner of soil" -- soil not only in the physical, but also in the figurative sense of a life-substance, which is fixed,…
- Question 22 – L is the only son of A and S. S has one sibling, B, who is married to L’s aunt, K. B is the only son of D. How are L and D related? Select the…
- Question 23 – Five segments of a sentence are given below. The first and fifth segments are at their correct positions, while the middle three segments (represented…
- Question 24 – “I told you the truth,” I say yet again, “Memory’s truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates,…
- Question 25 – A firm needs both skilled labour and unskilled labour for the production of cloth. The wage of skilled labour is Rs. 40,000 per month, and that of…
- Question 26 – Select the odd word and write the option number as answer: (1) Lek (2) Zloty (3) Diner (4) Drachma (5) Real
- Question 27 – Blind spot in the retina contains .
- Question 28 – Taking painkillers eliminates pain, increasing the likelihood that the person will take painkillers again. This is an example of .
- Question 29 – When learning something new impairs the ability to retrieve information learnt earlier, it is known as .
- Question 30 – Iconic memory is a type of .
- Question 31 – Which one of the following components of language has to do with the practical or social aspects of communication with others?
- Question 32 – The Yerkes-Dodson law states that .
- Question 33 – Transduction of mechanical energy into nerve impulses in the auditory system takes place in reponse to bending of the .
- Question 34 – Which one of the following theories states that emotion occurs as a result of physical arousal and labeling of the arousal based on cues from the…
- Question 35 – Which one of the following is TRUE for the Pain-Gate control theory?
- Question 36 – Being treated with warmth and consideration by others only when one behaves as expected, is called as .
- Question 37 – Which of the following is/are NOT the factor(s) of the Big Five Personality model?
- Question 38 – Which of the following is/are TRUE for creative individuals?
- Question 39 – Which of the following is/are included under behavioural genetics studies in humans?
- Question 40 – Which of the following statements regarding locus of control is/are CORRECT?
- Question 41 – Which of the following is/are TRUE for nonparametric statistics?
- Question 42 – According to the review of research on stress and immune system, which of the following statement(s) has/have substantial evidence?
- Question 43 – Which of the following influence(s) gender dysphoria?
- Question 44 – If the variance of a set of scores is 100, the standard deviation is (in integer).
- Question 45 – Match the structures of the brain in the first column with their respective functions in the second column of the table given below. Brain Structures…
- Question 46 – Which one of the following is established by the replication of research studies?
- Question 47 – Match the theory/law in the first column with the corresponding explanation in the second column of the table given below. Theory/law Explanation ---…
- Question 48 – Match the sleep disorders in the first column with the symptoms in the second column of the table given below. Sleep disorders Symptoms --- --- P)…
- Question 49 – explains aging as a process of mutual withdrawal of individual and society, whereas assumes positive correlation between activity and successful…
- Question 50 – Match the biases/effects in the first column with the descriptions in the second column of the table given below. Biases/effects Descriptions --- ---…
- Question 51 – Match the theories in the first column with the central themes in the second column of the table given below. Theories Central themes --- --- P) Drive…
- Question 52 – Which one of the following would resolve the basic dilemma of the social psychologist?
- Question 53 – Match the research methods in the first column with their purposes in the second column of the table given below. Research Methods Purposes --- --- P)…
- Question 54 – Which one of the following statements is TRUE according to Brehm’s reactance theory?
- Question 55 – According to the overjustifcation effect, which one of the following consequences would be TRUE for students who freely choose to study psychology, if…
- Question 56 – Large rewards and severe punishments are examples of justification for behaviour and result in changes in attitude.
- Question 57 – Which of the following therapies is/are based on classical conditioning?
- Question 58 – Which of the following characterize(s) Wernicke’s aphasia?
- Question 59 – Which of the following is/are the component(s) of Theory of Mind?
- Question 60 – Which of the following would NOT be effective in minimizing groupthink?
- Question 61 – Which of the following describe(s) the standard error of the mean?
- Question 62 – Which of the following describe(s) organizational commitment?
- Question 63 – Prejudice is supported by the human tendency to categorize into in-groups and out-groups. Prejudice is supported by which of the following processes?
- Question 64 – Which of the following is/are feature(s) of clinical phobia?
- Question 65 – The value of F calculated from the data given in the table below is (rounded off to one decimal place). Sum of Square (SS) Degree of freedom (df) Mean…