GATE 2026 XH5 (Psychology) – Previous Year Questions with Solutions
All 65 questions of GATE 2026 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 – “He often the numbers. False claims are not going to help. Honesty trust”, said the manager. Choose the option with the correct order of words to fill…
- Question 2 – In the sequence of tiles shown below, the missing tile indicated by the question mark should be
- Question 3 – A school has 100 students distributed among 1st to 10th standards. Based on this, which one of the following statements is always correct?
- Question 4 – How many 3-digit numbers can be formed using three distinct single digit prime numbers?
- Question 5 – In a group of students, 10 students like Mathematics, 12 students like English, 4 students like both Mathematics and English, and 6 students like…
- Question 6 – Charity : P :: Retaliation : Q Choose the appropriate pair of words P and Q that fit the analogy.
- Question 7 – A paper shown in Panel I is folded along the dashed lines (- - -) to construct a cube. The shaded regions shown in Panel I appear on the outer surface…
- Question 8 – Consider the cube shown below with its 8 corners labelled a, b, c, d, e, f, g, and h. The figure is representative. All corners are to be colored such…
- Question 9 – Four hills H1, H2, H3, and H4 are present in an area. The following observations are made about them: i. Neither H2 nor H3 is the easternmost hill.…
- Question 10 – As shown in the figure, circle C 1 with center O 1 and radius r 1 touches the square VWXY at points P and Q while circle C 2 with center O 2 and…
- Question 11 – Aman, Beena, Chiranjeevi and Dhiman are four siblings. Each of them is an expert in one of the performing arts, namely, dance, theatre, guitar and…
- Question 12 – Let ABC be an isosceles triangle with the base AB of length 8 units. Let CD be a perpendicular of length 4 units drawn from the vertex C onto the base…
- Question 13 – In the given passage, fill in the blanks with most suitable set of given words: The future must no longer be by the past. While, the effects of the…
- Question 14 – Indian society is experiencing a boom in pet culture, where people are becoming responsible caretakers of pets rather than merely providing food and…
- Question 15 – Three statements, S1, S2 and S3 are given, followed with 4 conclusions, C1, C2, C3 and C4. S1: Hostel authorities organised a special lunch on…
- Question 16 – Six statements, S1 to S6, are given. S1: All GATE candidates are engineers. S2: Some GATE candidates are CAT candidates. S3: All GRE candidates are…
- Question 17 – Four couples M-N, O-P, R-L, S-E meet to have a dinner together on an eight-seater rectangular dining table with four seats each on opposite sides. The…
- Question 18 – Me and my spouse have a big family, comprising 8 females and 6 males. We have two sons and two daughters, of whom the eldest is unmarried. Out of my…
- Question 19 – Given the first four terms 30, 105, 385, 1001 in a sequence, which amongst the following is the fifth term of the sequence?
- Question 20 – Three players named Arun, Babita and Chandu play a game by tossing an unbiased coin in turn whose rules are as follows: Initially each player has 100…
- Question 21 – Choose the correct sequence of sentences so that they form a coherent paragraph: P. However, in the context of texts dealing with science or…
- Question 22 – Mental health is a global concern, especially among the youth. During the Covid-19 pandemic, when schools and colleges were operating online, students…
- Question 23 – On the basis of syntax and grammar, identify the incorrect sentence(s). I. Doctors have found high levels of cerebrospinal fluid in certain cases of…
- Question 24 – In a cricket match amongst 7 friends, named P1 – P7, P1 scored maximum individual runs of 25 and P7 scored minimum individual run of 0. No two friends…
- Question 25 – A police station has six personnel comprising an inspector (I) and five constables (C 1, C 2, C 3, C 4, C 5). Normally, a ‘raid team’ of two, three,…
- Question 26 – A man visits four relatives on a day. He purchases some sweets and gives a part of it to the first relative. Next, he purchases the same number of…
- Question 27 – is the white fatty layer covering the axon that increases the speed of conduction of nerve impulses.
- Question 28 – EEG is a record of the electrical activities of nerve cells. The range of frequencies of EEG is Hz.
- Question 29 – Which of the following is true about contours in visual form perception?
- Question 30 – Which of the following statements is not true?
- Question 31 – Which of the following is not related to Adler’s Individual Psychology?
- Question 32 – Which of the following conceptualization postulates that there are two codes and two systems of storage of information – imagery code and verbal code?
- Question 33 – Which of the following is not true regarding Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?
- Question 34 – Which of the following is not associated with Roger’s Self Theory?
- Question 35 – Who proposed the idea of ‘decision frames’?
- Question 36 – Ethical considerations in research do not include:
- Question 37 – Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with:
- Question 38 – Transformational leadership is marked by which one of the following:
- Question 39 – Assertion: Mixed-method studies in psychology may include only qualitative-qualitative mixing. Reason: Mixed-method approaches are based on diverse…
- Question 40 – A simple random sampling is one that satisfies: Condition A: Each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected. Condition B:…
- Question 41 – Kohlberg argues that moral reasoning passes through different levels as people mature. In one of the levels, he proposes that the individual’s…
- Question 42 – The nature-nurture debate concerns the impact of heredity and environment.
- Question 43 – Find the value of Standard Error when: (i) Standard Deviation of the population = 10 (ii) Sample size = 100
- Question 44 – Calculate the value of Standard Deviation using the following scores: Scores: 15, 12, 14, 11, 13
- Question 45 – Match the following: Column I Column II --- --- --- --- P White matter i The folded sheet of neurons in each hemisphere Q Spikes ii Fiber tracts…
- Question 46 – Lesion studies show that hypothalamus is an excitatory region for hunger, and hypothalamus is involved in its cessation.
- Question 47 – Assertion: P- The test gives similar results even though different people administer it. Q- Different forms of the test are given, and the same person…
- Question 48 – Assertion: P- The reliability of a test is 0.90. Q- The validity of the same test is 0.60. Given P and Q, which of the following is correct?
- Question 49 – In Wechsler intelligence scales, people may express IQ in standard deviation units where, X = individual’s score, M = mean, and SD = standard…
- Question 50 – Match the following: Column I Column II --- --- --- --- P Standard error of estimate i Score range from one through nine. Q Statistical significance…
- Question 51 – Which of the following is/are NOT correct about Sternberg and Lubart’s (1996) theory of creativity?
- Question 52 – Which of the following is/are true about endorphin?
- Question 53 – Which of the following represent(s) theoretical explanations of Classical Conditioning?
- Question 54 – Consider the following Null-Hypothesis: “The mean of Treatment Group is not different from that of the Control Group”. When this is not accepted,…
- Question 55 – In ethnography, “thick description” is associated with:
- Question 56 – According to Central Limit Theorem, for a fixed sample size:
- Question 57 – Which of the following is/are true about multiple regression analysis?
- Question 58 – Which of the following is/are NOT true about the factorial designs of ANOVA?
- Question 59 – In cognitive behavioral therapy, which of the following type(s) of “faulty thinking” may be identified by the therapist?
- Question 60 – According to Moscovici’s Conversion Theory (1980) which of the following statements is/are true for majority influence?
- Question 61 – The probability that a recipient will critically evaluate arguments contained in a message (i.e., elaboration likelihood) is determined by both and .
- Question 62 – Cultural differences are partly explained by difference in and .
- Question 63 – Gordon W. Allport proposed that contact will only be successful in reducing prejudice when it takes place under certain optimal conditions. He…
- Question 64 – Which of the following psychologists is/are associated with the conceptualization of emotions?
- Question 65 – Which among the following is/are associated with the three psychiatric movements?