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GATE Social Psychology: Social Perception: Attribution, impression formation, social categorization, implicit personality theory – Previous Year Questions

6 GATE previous year questions on Social Perception: Attribution, impression formation, social categorization, implicit personality theory (Social Psychology, Psychology (XH5)) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2025 XH5 (Psychology) Q35 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – The tendency to observe behaviors of others in ways that are according to your expectations about them is called:
  2. GATE 2025 XH5 (Psychology) Q36 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – The tendency to explain other people’s behavior as the result of personal factors is called .
  3. GATE 2023 XH5 (Psychology) Q50 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Match the biases/effects in the first column with the descriptions in the second column of the table given below. Biases/effects Descriptions --- ---…
  4. GATE 2022 XH5 (Psychology) Q38 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – The process through which we seek to identify the causes of other’s behaviour and gain knowledge of their stable traits and dispositions is known as .
  5. GATE 2022 XH5 (Psychology) Q40 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – The statement “I can do no wrong, but, you can do no right”, refers to .
  6. GATE 2022 XH5 (Psychology) Q53 (2 marks, Multiple select) – Which of the following statements are related to social cognition?