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Official 2025 syllabus extracted from https://gate2025.iitr.ac.in/doc/2025/GATE%20_XH-C5_2025_Syllabus.pdf

Research Methods and Statistics

Philosophical worldviews and criteria

Research design: quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods

Approaches to Research

Research problems

Purpose statement

Variables and operational definitions

Hypothesis

Sampling

Designing Research

Structured and semi-structured interviewing

Self-completion questionnaires (survey)

Observation

Experimental and quasi-experimental designs

Field studies

Focus group discussions

Narratives

Case studies

Ethnography

Nature of Quantitative and Qualitative Research

Ethics in conducting and reporting research

Ethics in Research

Measures of central tendency and dispersion

Normal probability curve

Parametric and non-parametric tests

Effect size and power analysis

Statistics in Psychology

Correlation: Product Moment, Rank Order

Partial correlation, multiple correlation

Biserial, point biserial, tetrachoric, phi coefficient

Simple linear regression, multiple regression

Factor analysis: assumptions, methods, rotation, interpretation

Correlational Analysis

ANOVA: one-way, factorial

Randomized block designs

Repeated measures design

Latin square

Cohort studies, time series

MANOVA, ANCOVA

Single-subject designs

Experimental Designs

Psychometrics

Foundations of psychological measurement

Scales and items

Construction and analysis of intelligence test items, performance tests, ability and aptitude tests, personality questionnaires

Method of test construction

Standardization of measures: reliability, validity, norms

Applications of psychological testing in education, counselling, clinical, organizational, developmental settings

Biological and Evolutionary Basis of Behaviour

Heredity and behaviour

Evolution and natural selection

Nervous system, brain structures and functions

Neurons: structure, functions, types, neural impulse, synaptic transmission

Neurotransmitters

Hemispheric lateralization

Endocrine system: types and functions

Biological basis of motivation: hunger, thirst, sleep, sex

Biological basis of emotion: limbic system, hormonal regulation

Invasive methods: anatomical, degeneration, lesion, chemical, microelectrode

Non-invasive methods: EEG, scanning

Muscular and glandular system

Genetics and behaviour

Chromosomal anomalies

Nature-Nurture controversy: twin and adoption studies

Perception, Learning, Memory and Forgetting

Sensation, sensory thresholds and adaptations

Vision, hearing, touch, pain, smell, taste, kinesthesis, vestibular sense

Perception: role of attention

Organizing principles of perception

Gestalt perception, depth perception, illusions

Theories of learning: classical conditioning, operant conditioning, social learning, cognitive learning

Memory: encoding, storage, retrieval

Information processing theories of memory

Long term memory retrieval and reconstruction

Forgetting: encoding failure, interference theory, memory trace decay

Physical aspects of memory

Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence and Language

Basic elements of thought: concepts, propositions, imagery

Cognitive psychology paradigms: information processing and ecological approaches

Problem solving: methods, strategies and obstacles

Role of metacognitive processing

Decision-making

Theories of intelligence: Spearman, Thurstone, Jensen, Cattell, Gardner, Sternberg

Emotional intelligence

Measuring intelligence

Individual differences

Role of heredity and environment

Intelligence vs aptitude vs creativity

Cognition

Personality

Psychoanalytic theory

Behaviourist theory

Social cognitive view

Humanism

Trait and type theories

Biology of personality

Assessment of personality

Motivation, Emotion and Stress and Coping

Approaches to motivation: instinct, drive-reduction, arousal, incentive, humanistic

Achievement motivation, intrinsic motivation, aggression, curiosity, exploration

Nature and biological basis of emotions

Theories of emotions: James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, Schachter-Singer, Lazarus

Stress and stressors

Cognitive factors in stress

General adaptation syndrome

Effects of stress

Coping: problem-focused and emotion-focused

REBT and meditation

Motivation, Emotion and Stress

Social Psychology

Social perception: attribution, impression formation, social categorization

Implicit personality theory

Social influence: conformity, compliance, obedience

Attitudes, beliefs and values

Attitude formation, change and persuasion

Cognitive dissonance

Prejudice, discrimination

Aggression, power and prosocial behaviour

Belief systems and value patterns

Group dynamics, leadership style and effectiveness

Theories of intergroup relations and conflicts

Development Across the Life Span

Nature vs nurture

Prenatal development: chromosomes, genes, DNA

Physical, cognitive and psychosocial development in infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood

Theories of aging

Moral development

Development

Applications of Psychology

Conceptions of mental disorders

Assessment and diagnosis, DSM

PTSD and trauma

Psychotherapies: psychodynamic, phenomenological/experiential, behaviour, cognitive, biological

Application to school: educational achievement, counselling and guidance

Application to organizational settings

Personal space, crowding, territoriality

Applications