GATE Research Methods and Statistics – Previous Year Questions by Topic

GATE Research Methods and Statistics (Psychology (XH5)) previous year questions, topic by topic: Approaches to Research: Philosophical worldviews, quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods designs, Designing Research: Research problems, purpose statement, variables and operational definitions, hypothesis, sampling, Nature of Quantitative and Qualitative Research: Interview, survey, observation, experiment, quasi-experiment, field studies, focus groups, narratives, case studies, ethnography, Ethics in conducting and reporting research, Statistics in Psychology: Central tendency and dispersion, normal probability curve, parametric and non-parametric tests, effect size and power analysis, Correlational Analysis: Product moment and rank order correlation, partial and multiple correlation, biserial, point biserial, tetrachoric and phi, regression, factor analysis and more.

• Approaches to Research: Philosophical worldviews, quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods designs 4 questions
• Designing Research: Research problems, purpose statement, variables and operational definitions, hypothesis, sampling 8 questions
• Nature of Quantitative and Qualitative Research: Interview, survey, observation, experiment, quasi-experiment, field studies, focus groups, narratives, case studies, ethnography 8 questions
• Ethics in conducting and reporting research 3 questions
• Statistics in Psychology: Central tendency and dispersion, normal probability curve, parametric and non-parametric tests, effect size and power analysis 20 questions
• Correlational Analysis: Product moment and rank order correlation, partial and multiple correlation, biserial, point biserial, tetrachoric and phi, regression, factor analysis 5 questions
• Experimental Designs: Factorial, randomized block, repeated measures and single-subject designs, cohort studies, ANOVA, MANOVA and ANCOVA 5 questions