GATE 2025 XH5 (Psychology) – Previous Year Questions with Solutions
All 65 questions of GATE 2025 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 – Here are two analogous groups, Group-I and Group-II, that list words in their decreasing order of intensity. Identify the missing word in Group-II.…
- Question 2 – Had I learnt acting as a child, I a famous film star. Select the most appropriate option to complete the above sentence.
- Question 3 – The 12 musical notes are given as C, C\#, D, D\#, E, F, F\#, G, G\#, A, A\#, and B. Frequency of each note is [12]2 times the frequency of the…
- Question 4 – The following figures show three curves generated using an iterative algorithm. The total length of the curve generated after ‘Iteration n’ is: Note:…
- Question 5 – Which one of the following plots represents f(x) = - x x, where x is a non-zero real number? Note: The figures shown are representative.
- Question 6 – Identify the option that has the most appropriate sequence such that a coherent paragraph is formed: P. Over time, such adaptations lead to…
- Question 7 – A stick of length one meter is broken at two locations at distances of b 1 and b 2 from the origin (0), as shown in the figure. Note that 0 < b 1 < b…
- Question 8 – Eight students (P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, and W) are playing musical chairs. The figure indicates their order of position at the start of the game. They…
- Question 9 – The table lists the top 5 nations according to the number of gold medals won in a tournament; also included are the number of silver and the bronze…
- Question 10 – An organization allows its employees to work independently on consultancy projects but charges an overhead on the consulting fee. The overhead is 20%…
- Question 11 – Which one of the following numbers is odd one out? 31541 42651 53791 64871 75981
- Question 12 – Ankit, Arun, and Ankur have one apple each. Ankur also has one banana. Alam has one mango and one kiwi. Ankit has just bought one pineapple. Who has…
- Question 13 – If each vowel in the word RESIDE is changed to its previous letter in the English alphabet and each consonant is changed to the next letter in the…
- Question 14 – Vipul, Ahmad, Santosh, and David are playing Carrom. Vipul and Ahmad are partners sitting opposite to each other. David faces towards South. If Vipul…
- Question 15 – Consider the following sentence. What the country needs accordingly. First and last parts of the sentence are given. P, Q, R, and S are the remaining…
- Question 16 – A car started from city P at 9.40am. The time taken for the car to reach the city Q is 4 hours and 50 minutes. The time of arrival of the car at city…
- Question 17 – P is three years younger than R but one year older than S. S is one year older than Q but 4 years younger than R. R is 15 years old. The age of Q is…
- Question 18 – In a certain code language, ATTITUDE is written as TAUJUEDU and CHILDREN is written as HCJMENER. How LANGUAGE is written in that code language?
- Question 19 – The table shows the data of 450 candidates who appeared in the examination of three subjects – Social Science, Mathematics, and Science. How many…
- Question 20 – If means +, + means , - means , and means -, then 8 7 - 8 + 40 2 =
- Question 21 – Given a series 5, 8, 11, 14, … If the nth term of the given series is 320, then n (where, n 1) is
- Question 22 – Suppose, your last year taxable income was Rs. 22000. Due to hike in salary, your taxable income this year is Rs. 34200. The details for tax…
- Question 23 – Anand, Hari, and Chris are engaged in one of the three type of occupations – clerk, teacher, and plumber, not necessarily in that order. Each person…
- Question 24 – Many countries are facing water shortage crises in the past few years. A report of the United Nation has named India among the worst countries for…
- Question 25 – In the following figure, four overlapping shapes (rectangle, triangle, circle, and hexagon) are given. The sum of the numbers which belong to only two…
- Question 26 – Consider a square field ABCD. The diagonal AC is 50 meter. The cost of laying grass in the field is Rs. 5 per square-meter. The total cost for laying…
- Question 27 – Parenting style in which parents are so involved that children are permitted to behave without set limits is termed as .
- Question 28 – in both lobes of the brain are responsible for coordination and interpretation of information as well as higher mental processing.
- Question 29 – If Skinner : Behaviourism, then Howard Gardner : ?
- Question 30 – An experimental set-up where neither the experimenter nor the participants know who are in the experimental or control groups is known as?
- Question 31 – If Cultural Congruence : Social Psychology, then Evoked Culture : ?
- Question 32 – Match the following: Column I: Perspectives in Psychology Column II: Concept of human nature --- --- --- --- P Psychodynamic i Reactors to the…
- Question 33 – Which statistical technique is used to analyze patterns of loading of coefficients?
- Question 34 – Match the following: Column I Column II --- --- --- --- P Instinct i Environmental motivation triggers Q Incentive ii Are fixed action patterns R…
- Question 35 – The tendency to observe behaviors of others in ways that are according to your expectations about them is called:
- Question 36 – The tendency to explain other people’s behavior as the result of personal factors is called .
- Question 37 – Ankit was chased by a dog when he was a child. Now he is afraid of all animals. This is an example of:
- Question 38 – Identify “False” and “True” statements P. Little children wearing neon green color jacket on field trips illustrates the use of exogenous attention Q.…
- Question 39 – Specific description of a variable that allows it to be measured is called:
- Question 40 – In which method(s) we gather detailed information of a small number of persons?
- Question 41 – Which of the following option(s) do(es) NOT denote the state of internal physiological equilibrium that the body strives to maintain?
- Question 42 – Which of the following option(s) refer(s) to secondary appraisal?
- Question 43 – Which of the following is/are included as a basic type of intelligence in Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory?
- Question 44 – As per the ethical guidelines of American Psychological Association, which of the option(s) depict(s) unacceptable use of ‘Deception’ in psychology…
- Question 45 – Match the following theories of ageing. Column I Column II --- --- --- --- P Cellular-Clock Theory i Oxygen molecule with unstable electron Q…
- Question 46 – Match the neurotransmitters with their functions Column I Column II --- --- --- --- P Acetylcholine i Movement and pleasure sensation Q Dopamine ii…
- Question 47 – Match the concerned human nervous system with their associated functions. Column I Column II --- --- --- --- P Sympathetic i Carrying messages from…
- Question 48 – A researcher plans to study the long-term effect of Covid-19 on human cognitive functions. The plan is summarized below. STUDY- I (Study conducted in…
- Question 49 – If Central Nervous System = Brain + Spinal Cord, then Peripheral Nervous System = ?
- Question 50 – Match the following: Column I Column II --- --- --- --- P Anima i A universal idea, image, or pattern, found in the collective unconscious. Q Animus…
- Question 51 – Behavior modification programs aimed at extinction of an undesirable behavior typically make use of:
- Question 52 – Match the concept to the correct answer : Concept Meaning --- --- --- --- P Confounding i We can draw clear causal conclusions from an experiment. Q…
- Question 53 – Assertions- P. Factor analysis reduces a large number of measures to a smaller number of clusters. Q. The measures within each cluster are highly…
- Question 54 – perspective is considered as the ‘first force’ in Psychology, whereas perspective is considered as the ‘third force’ in Psychology. Fill in the blanks…
- Question 55 – In language development which of the following statement(s) is/are true:
- Question 56 – Projective Techniques would NOT be of interest to which type(s) of personality theorists?
- Question 57 – Which of the following is/are characteristic(s) of Type A personality:
- Question 58 – Which of the following is/are source(s) of variability that contribute(s) to errors in measurement of estimating reliability?
- Question 59 – The humanistic approach to therapy would be the least effective in treating which of the following condition(s)?
- Question 60 – Characteristic feature(s) of an aptitude test is/are:
- Question 61 – From the following options, what is/are illusion(s)?
- Question 62 – Refer to Column I and Column II and mark the statement(s) that is/are “True” Class 8, Section A marks (Column I) Class 8, Section B marks (Column II)…
- Question 63 – Which of the following is/are true for conformity:
- Question 64 – When the probability of Type I error () is 0.05 and the maximum acceptable probability of Type II error () is 0.20, the researcher is willing to…
- Question 65 – If Soni got an intelligence score of 115, then what percentage of the population (%, as given in the graph) will have intelligence scores higher than…