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GATE Motivation, Emotion and Stress and Coping: Approaches to Motivation: Instinct, drive-reduction, arousal, incentive, humanistic, achievement and intrinsic motivation, aggression, curiosity and exploration – Previous Year Questions

5 GATE previous year questions on Approaches to Motivation: Instinct, drive-reduction, arousal, incentive, humanistic, achievement and intrinsic motivation, aggression, curiosity and exploration (Motivation, Emotion and Stress and Coping, Psychology (XH5)) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2025 XH5 (Psychology) Q34 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Match the following: Column I Column II --- --- --- --- P Instinct i Environmental motivation triggers Q Incentive ii Are fixed action patterns R…
  2. GATE 2025 XH5 (Psychology) Q41 (1 mark, Multiple select) – Which of the following option(s) do(es) NOT denote the state of internal physiological equilibrium that the body strives to maintain?
  3. GATE 2023 XH5 (Psychology) Q32 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – The Yerkes-Dodson law states that .
  4. GATE 2023 XH5 (Psychology) Q51 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – 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…
  5. GATE 2023 XH5 (Psychology) Q55 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – According to the overjustifcation effect, which one of the following consequences would be TRUE for students who freely choose to study psychology, if…