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GATE Paper 2021 & 2022
GATE Paper 2021 & 2022
A. Participative
B. Directive
C. Supportive
D. achievement oriented
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2. A process to test reliability that involves creating a large ‘bank’ of items and
then dividing it into different versions or creating two tests with items of
similar difficulty is called
A. Projection
B. reaction formation
C. Repression
D. Rationalization
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Q.5 Which of the following theories of emotion best fits with the statement that perception of
an environmental situation results in emotions and both, felt emotion and bodily
reactions in emotions are independent of each other, but triggered simultaneously?
A. James-Lange Theory
B. Lazarus’s Cognitive Appraisal Theory
C. Schachter-Singer Theory
D. Cannon-Bard Theory
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6. The perceived fairness of the distribution of resources and rewards is described as
A) Interactional justice
B) Procedural justice
C) Distributive justice
D) Informational justice
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7. According to bandura’s theory of personality, which one of the following is the most
important person variables in determining personality ?
A)Self-esteem
B)Self –concept
C)Self –efficacy
D)Self- determination
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8. Match the events in the first column with the different categories of stress in the second
column.
A) Timbre
B) Pitch
C) Loudness
D) purity
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Q.11 ________ is a reinforcement schedule, where a person or animal receives the
reinforcement based on varying amount of time.
(A) Variable-interval
(B) Fixed-ratio
(C) Fixed-interval
(D) Variable-ratio
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Q.12 _____________ is a loss of memory of events that occurred prior to the trauma.
(A) Phoneme
(B) Syntax
(C) semantics
(D) Morpheme
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15 In adolescence, with the development of the stage of ‘formal operations’, we are likely to see
the development of ____________.
(A) Transference
(B) Preconventional morality
(C) bodily-kinesthetic intelligence
(D) Post-conventional morality
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Q.16 Which technique allows researchers to conduct an integrative statistical analysis of
multiple independent studies addressing the same question?
(A) Regression analysis
(B) Correlational analysis
(C) Meta-analysis
(D) Bootstrapping
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Q.17 The role of culture and 'scaffolding' are emphasized in
(A) Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development
(B) Piaget's theory of cognitive development
(C) Atkinson-Shiffrin's information-processing model
(D) Kamiloff-Smith's theory of cognitive development
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Q.18 Most people tend NOT to consider situational factors while judging others'
behaviour because
(A) of the frustration-aggression relationship
(B) people are inclined to commit the fundamental attribution error
(C) people are influenced by the laws of reinforcement
(D) of the overjustification effect
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Q.19 Using archival analysis, scientists describe a culture by
Which of the following will hold true for a learning acquisition curve drawn for a classical
conditioning experiment on eye blinking as conditioned response that plots the learning over a
number of trials?
(A) The rate of learning on earlier trials is more than that on later trials.
(B) The rate of learning in later trials will be more than that on earlier trials.
(A) Avoidance – Avoidance conflict, he will keep vacillating between telling his parents and
continuing to study science.
(D) Avoidance – Avoidance conflict, he may contemplate running away from his home.
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Q. 26 Which of these is true about individuals high on n-achievement motivation?
(A) High n-achievement individuals like to work on situations where they have control and get
feedback.
(B) High n-achievement individuals prefer working on extremely challenging tasks for bigger
gains.
(C) High n-achievement individuals persistently work on tasks they perceive as, either reflecting
their personal characteristics like intelligence or are career-related.
(C) Personality cannot be fully understood by examining each trait separately, though some
system of conceptual schemata are essential for personality study and a trait must be related to
the pattern of personality.
(A) Task-oriented role (the activities of an individual that involve helping the group reach the
goal).
(B) Socio-emotional role (the activities of an individual that involve being supportive and
nurturing of other group members).
(D) Prescriptive norms (expectations within group regarding what has to be done).
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Q. 29 Which of the following needs/motives are proposed by Abraham Maslow?
(B) Metaneeds.
(D) Need-achievement.
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Q. 30 A researcher is conducting a study involving two independent variables. Which of the
following Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) is/are available to him/her?
(A) He would not steal the drug, as everyone will see him as a thief, and his wife would not
approve of his stealing or accept the stolen drug.
(B) The man would not steal the drug, as he may get caught and go to jail.
(C) No matter what, he would obey the law because stealing is a crime.
(D) The man would steal the drug to cure his wife and then tell the authorities what he has done.
He may have to pay a penalty, but at least he would have saved a human lite.
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Q. 34 According to Erik Erikson, identity versus role confusion is the fifth stage of lifespan
development. Which of the following outcomes may emerge as a result of identity crisis?
(A) Cells can divide to a maximum of about 75 to 80 times and that as people age, cells become
less capable of dividing.
(B) People age because when cells metabolize energy, the by-products include unstable oxygen
molecules known as free radicals.
activation?
(A) The smaller the incentive, the greater will be the attitude change.
(B) All the students will change their attitudes towards water purifiers.
(C) All the students will continue to feel favourably about water purifiers.
(D) The larger the incentive, the greater will be the attitude change.
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39. In which attachment style(s), do children tend to show clingy behaviour but
(A) Pre-conventional
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Question 32 MCQ
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You had been driving a car with manual-gear for 5 years. Recently, you started
driving a new car with an auto- gear. If you are having any trouble, it is most
likely due to ____________.
(A) Flooding
(B) Countertransference
(C) The last word above is WordArt text. If you want to Counterconditioning
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(D) Systematic
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Question 34
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According to Robert Sternberg, “Street Smarts” refers to
(A) Sublimation
(B) Regression
(C) Projection
(D) Rationalization
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Question 38
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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
____________.
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(B) Dissemination
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(C) Retribution
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(D) Attribution
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Which of the following techniques is used to measure the variations in the
activity of Ascending Reticular Activating System (ARAS)?
(A) ECG
(B) PET
(C) fMRI
(D) EEG
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Question 40 MCQ
The statement “I can do no wrong, but, you can do no right”, refers to
_______________.
(A) Phenomenology
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(B) modify it: Ethnography
(C) Focused-group discussion
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(D) Grounded-theory
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Question 42 MCQ
Which part of the brain is responsible for transferring information from STM to
LTM?
(A) Amygdala
(B) Hypothalamus
(C) Hippocampus
(D) Cerebellum
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Question 43 NAT
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Question 44 NAT
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Swami gets a test score of 190, the mean is 150 and SD is 25. Assuming normal
distribution, the Z score would be _____________. (round off to one decimal
place)
(A) Tests the mean difference of more than two groups on one dependent variable.
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(B) Tests the mean difference of more than two groups across several dependent
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Question 46 MSQ
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Which of the following statements is/are related to observational learning?
(A) The same test is administered to the same people at two points in time
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Question 48 MSQ
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Which of the following statement(s) regarding test scores and their
interpretations is/are correct?
(A) How individuals interpret, analyze, remember and use information about the
social world
(B) How people create mental structure to organise knowledge about the social world
(C) How people think about themselves and the social world
(D) It does not allow interaction between people and the environment
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Which of the following theory(ies) is/are related to work motivation?
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Which of the following are not part of Thurstone’s theory of primary mental abilities?
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Question 56 MSQ
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Which of the following are the competencies of a Bystander?
(A) Dyslexia
(B) Dystopia
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(D) Dystonia
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Question 63 MSQ
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Which of the following concepts are not related to Piaget’s theory of cognitive
development?
(A) Imprinting
(B) The last word above is WordArt text. If you want to Attachment
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(D) Zone of Proximal Development
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Question 64 MSQ
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statement(s) is/are correct regarding exploratory factor
analysis (EFA) technique?
(A) It helps to reduce large number of variables into few numbers of factors.
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Question 65 MSQ
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If you want to examine the difference between the work values of employees in
public and private sector and the relationship of work values with employee
engagement, what would be the appropriate statistics to test the hypotheses?
(A) F-test
(B) t-test
(C) Pearson Product moment correlation
(D) Chi-square
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