Humanities and Social Sciences (Psychology)
GATE XH-C5 year:2023 PYQs
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Questions 21–30 of 65. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.
Question 21
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The stranger is by nature no "owner of soil" -- soil not only in the physical, but also in the figurative sense of a life-substance, which is fixed, if not in a point in space, at least in an ideal point of the social environment. Although in more intimate relations, he may develop all kinds of charm and significance, as long as he is considered a stranger in the eyes of the other, he is not an "owner of soil." Restriction to intermediary trade, and often (as though sublimated from it) to pure finance, gives him the specific character of mobility. If mobility takes place within a closed group, it embodies that synthesis of nearness and distance which constitutes the formal position of the stranger. For, the fundamentally mobile person comes in contact, at one time or another, with every individual, but is not organically connected, through established ties of kinship, locality, and occupation, with any single one.
What assumptions can be made about the stranger from the passage above?
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L is the only son of A and S. S has one sibling, B, who is married to L’s ant, K. B is the only son of D. How are L and D related?
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Five segments of a sentence are given below. The first and fifth segments are at their correct positions, while the middle three segments (represented by 2, 3, and 4) are jumbled up. Choose the correct order of the segments so that they form a coherent sentence:
Consumed multitudes are jostling and shoving inside me
and guided only by the memory of a large white bedsheet with a rough circular hole some seven inches in diameter cut into the center,
clenching at the dream of that hole, mutilated square of linen, which is my talisman, my open-sesame,
I must commence the business of remaking my life from the point at which it really began,
some thirty-two years before anything as obvious, as present, as my clock-ridden, crime-stained birth.
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“I told you the truth,” I say yet again, “Memory’s truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent versions of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else’s version more than his own.”
What are the different ways in which ‘truth’ can be understood from the passage?
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A firm needs both skilled labour and unskilled labour for the production of cloth. The wage of skilled labour is Rs. 40,000 per month, and that of unskilled labour is Rs. 15,000 per month. The total wage bill of the firm for the production of cloth is Rs. 23,75,000 in a month for 100 labour. How many skilled labour are employed by the firm (in Integer)
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Select the odd word and write the option number as answer:
(1) Lek (2) Zloty (3) Diner (4) Drachma (5) Real
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Blind spot in the retina contains ________________________________.
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Taking painkillers eliminates pain, increasing the likelihood that the person will take painkillers again. This is an example of ________________________________.
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When learning something new impairs the ability to retrieve information learnt earlier, it is known as ________________________________.
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Iconic memory is a type of __________________.
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