NIMHANS Mphil/MA Clinical Psychology Previous Year Question Papers 2025 for Entrance RCI Approved

As you can see right now on your screen, this is your NIMHANS previous year questions memory based compilations and this is exclusively for the CMP members, but also shortly you will also get it. So, make sure to do join the Telegram group to access the questions of NIMHANS, okay? So, if you are going to give the NIMHANS entrance test of 2026, these all questions will make you understand the paper pattern or maybe the type of questions these guys are asking and you can prepare accordingly if you are doing self-study by yourself and by all the major books which we have referred to in our previous videos and these PYQs will help you to figure out whether or not you have touched all these topics till now right now or not or whether or not you are completely unaware of these topics and you need to prepare maybe you were thinking your preparation is enough, but now you need to learn more, read more and do more, okay? All right, so the very first question, these are compilation of how many? These are compilation of I guess almost 50 questions over here, okay? So, we'll quickly go one by one for these questions and what is the standard medicine used to treat lithium responsive disorders like mania? So, once again, you are having the Neeraj Ahuja coming into picture over here. Now, the question is on defense mechanism, so make sure to revise all the defense mechanism before the examination, okay? Right from the repression, the sublimation, introspection, whatever these kind of defense mechanisms are, make sure because they will give you some applied based question and depending upon that, you have to mark the correct answer over there, all right? Okay, now third one is which research design involves randomly manipulating conditions to observe effect? Now, over here, AK Singh is coming into picture, okay? And next question is what are the three dimensions of high expressed emotion? This might be new for you, okay? Now, which scale of measurement is IQ generally considered to be? Which scale of measurement? So, we are having four types of majorly the noir, the French word, okay? The nominal, ordinal, and the ratio scale, so try to this you can read from the very first chapter of AK Singh, okay? On scales of measurement. Now, then we are having the is the Binet-Kamath Intelligence Test used for children or adults in the Indian context? So, these kind of intelligence test whichever are made in India, you need to be aware of that as well, okay? Now, in a systematic review, which guidelines are strictly followed and you need to read about Prisma guidelines as well. What is a systematic review? Maybe some of you might not be knowing what is it, so make sure to read all these topics, okay? So, if you are not finding any of these topics in any of these books, so what you will just simply do? You will just simply Google and get a quick reference of all these topics and get an understanding of how these things are doing, okay? Now, what does a risk ratio of one signify in the epidemiological study? So, many of you might not be knowing what is the meaning of epidemic or epidemiology or prevalence or comorbidity? These kind of little little words are also given in the Neeraj Ahuja, so you can also go with that and make a comprehensive understanding of all these topics, okay? These all questions are the questions submitted by the students, okay? Those who gave the examination depending upon that, all right? Now, next we are having the will to meaning is the core tenant of which therapy? So, psychotherapies is very very IMP, okay? Reading, studying and knowing about psychotherapies is very very important and for that you can refer to Gerald Corey, I guess, C O R E Y. That book you refer for the therapy portion, okay? Now, which brain imaging technique is considered the functional equivalent to an ECG? Once again, you are having the Cecil Alie over there. Now, which reinforcement schedule has the maximum resistance to extinction? Every examination, they are going to ask these kind of question depending upon the negative reinforcement, I mean on negative reinforcement, positive punishment and these kind of thing and in which schedule we will have the maximum resistance to extinction? When you will open the C book, you will went to you will go to the learning chapter and over there, you will find this same statement over there as well, okay? Now, when we are having the very basic question, what was the royal road to the unconscious according to Freud? So, you will tell about this. Which intelligence test uses paper cutting as a subtest, okay? So, if you are newly joined, if you have skipped the previous part, then we are doing the NIMHANS PYQs of the previous session and then we are having this Karl Lashley's research on the engram suggested memory is stored where? So, now you have to read about Karl Lashley as well. If a client reports unethical behavior, so ethics of research and these kind of things are also important, okay? Which specific group therapy is associated with Maxwell Jones? You will find I guess you will find in the Corey as well, this guy Maxwell Jones. What are the brain ventricles filled with? You will have the pineal over there for biopsychology over here. Now, in the 2017 Mental Health Care Act, so now this might be new for some of you, okay? This Mental Health Care Act, so there are certain acts for our mental health, maybe the Lunacy Act of the previous 1890s, that will be not that relevant as of now, but when once you will go to the Neeraj Ahuja, you will open the last I guess the last chapters there they have given about these acts, so you can find some of those, you can just simply Google for 2017 Mental Health Care Act, 1992 Act and these kind of acts and you will get all the PDF and you can waste your time on that. It is not at all required, but yeah yes, just the major concerns and the major topics that are given in these acts are important for you, okay? Now, people are some of you might be wasting time on the DSM-5 TR or DSM-5 for the complete reading, it is not at all required to read completely, okay? You have to be very very selective and now we'll talk about the is the median a measure of variability or central tendency? Now, statistics is coming into picture. Maybe you have done economics, not economics, maybe you have done statistics in maybe 10th, 11th or 12th depending upon your pre-schooling and that will come into picture over here because you might be need to know about median, mode and what else? Mode mode, mean and median, okay? So, what are these? These are the variables, not variables, these are the central tendency and of course, it is a measure of central tendency, not variability. So, in variability, what will come? Will variance come? Will SD come? Will QA come? Will AD come? What will come? You have to find out at this as well. Which specific substance is considered the most addictive, nicotine, cocaine or alcohol? And this was the recent quiz that was placed on our Telegram channel. We discussed about this as well. I mean, there was a quiz and something you can relate very very easily if you have given answer for this particular question, okay? And see, this is once again pumped up, I mean, jumped up in the NIMHANS previous PYQ, okay? So, if you are going to give the NIMHANS 2026 examination, make sure that if these PYQs are helping you, you are going there from preparing from these PYQs, so make sure that once you come out of the examination hall, please send us the PYQs so that it will help the future of or future you as well, okay? Now, what are the four worlds described in existential therapy including the Uberwelt, okay? So, now we are having the Umwelt, U M E U is the mnemonic, Umwelt, Mitwelt, Eigenwelt and then Uberwelt we are having. So, these are the four worlds and then we have the physical life, social life and what not, mental life. So, you need to go through with this as well, all right? Okay, now which sampling method requires the researcher to fix the number of people in specific categories beforehand, okay? So, will probability will come into picture or the non-probability one? What will come into picture? Make sure to find out. Socratic questioning is a hallmark of which therapeutic approach? So, you need to read more about therapy, okay? Therapy is IMP. I guess not Jones, that was that was Maxwell Jones, I guess Corey will suffice for this Socratic questioning as well. Which type of reliability is not standard, test-retest, split-half, interrater or intrarater? These kind of questions, so you need to in short, you don't need to prepare for this particular question, but you need to understand what is reliability, what is the split-half, what is the ICR, internal consistency reliability, what is the test-retest, interrater and what is happening in each of these reliability thing, okay? What is the error over there, okay? Is the time is the error or the content is the error or context is the error? Make sure to read about reliability thoroughly as well. Now, question number 25, what does RPM, Raven's Progressive Matrices, primarily measure? So, you will answer is it about personality, intelligence and this question has been taken from where? From the ebook as well. Name a famous famous book written by BF Skinner. So, now these kind of questions are very very rarely or rarely you will be able to answer, okay? They can give anyone. Name a famous book written by maybe Jordan Peterson or maybe Martin Seligman, maybe Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, maybe anyone, okay? So, you cannot prepare exactly for these kind of questions, but all these questions are pretty much doable along with that, pretty much traceable if you are reading the books and you will find every question coming up from there, okay? But so, don't prepare for these kind of questions. If your general knowledge is good, if you are reading more about personal individual, then it is good, okay? If not, just completely skip for these kind of questions and don't even mark in the exam hall if you are completely unaware, okay? So, there are n number of psychologist so far so now, okay? Maybe from the India, Africa or whatever, they can ask anyone. They they will pick anyone and they will ask about them. You might not be able to answer about that particular book, okay? Because you are not able to complete these four five six simple easy books, so how you will know of these names as well, okay? About them. Now, moving towards the next questions and the marshmallow test is a famous study on what psychological concept? These kind of questions. Does the Stanford-Binet provide a ratio? Very very IMP. This is a very good question, question number 28, IMP and this can be covered or catered easily from the ebook. They have mentioned about this as well. The difference between the Wechsler and the this thing, deviation in the ratio IQ they have mentioned. Now, which defense mechanism? See, once again, we are having two kinds of question, okay, on defense mechanism. So, defense mechanism becomes very, very important for you, okay? Now, question number 30. Can Bhatia's battery of performance test be used for an illiterate child suspected? Once again, India's battery, okay? Or also try to read about NIMHANS battery and all these things, okay? They can ask about that. Chances are very less, 0.1%, but you should prepare for that as well, okay? What is SLD and all these kind of things. Now, what are the five steps of creative thinking process? Okay, in observational learning, what are the four prerequisites? Attention, retention, emit that mnemonic, attention, motivation, imitation, and desire. You need to have attention, memory, imitation, and desire, okay? Now, which specific disorder is often linked to lack of parental mirroring in childhood? These kind of questions, once again, specific disorder. Try to Try to do complete study of bipolar, depression, anxiety, phobias, and schizophrenia, okay? 95% of questions are going to be coming from here only, and sometimes substance abuse as well, okay? These kind of questions. Now, what is the projective hypothesis regarding symbols and cards? Once again, A book is coming into picture in the Rorschach and all these thematic apperception, you will find these symbols and cards over there as well. Now, question number 35. Systematic desensitization is based on which principle? Flooding or reciprocal inhibition, and I guess this is also a PYQ of UDC NET, maybe. What is the difference between bystander effect and bystander apathy over here? And then we are having the What are the DSM access access access? Specifically referring to the older multi-axial system. Don't worry about this, just get into your head what is the DSM-5 TR currently doing, and they will update shortly. Which statistical method is used to explore the relationship between two variables while controlling for a third, okay? Which kind of method will use? You use Will you use a T test or which method or chi-square or what you will use? So, try to figure out these kind of questions, and these kind of questions are very, very important for your upcoming NIMHANS 26 prep, okay? Now, preparation or preparation. Now, question number 39. The 16PF personality test was developed using which statistical technique? And this question, I will tell you, this is taken from NCERT, okay? This is taken from NCERT. If you will open 12th class NCERT, second chapter, you will find the answer for this thing, okay? Now, what is meant by the term ego-dystonic? Try to figure out. Which subtest is not part of the WAIS-IV? Even once you will open the A book, you will find answer for this as well. What are the Piaget's type of morality? My goodness, they have just given a complete a complete bummer over here, okay? And this is the very first exam I'm looking into where they have asked about Piaget's types of morality, okay? This is absolutely gem of a question, and they have just pulled that string, okay? And this is a very, very good question, okay? Now, I have never seen this kind of question in any of the examination, but right now I am witnessing in a NIMHANS PYQ, okay? Piaget's type of morality, and they are we are having the heteronomous and autonomous over there, so you try to figure out. Now, what is the National Trust Act 1999 and who does it protect? All right, okay. Now, we are having question number 44, and this is a Mago question over here. In which therapy are games a central concept for analysis? So, if you know the answer, Games People Play, we have a YouTube short over there as well. So, if you know the therapy, make sure to comment down below who has given Games People Play, and this is the exact answer for this as well. Now, what is the primary focus of the Vineland test VSMs? Vineland Vineland, okay? And then we are having which specific type of study is best for researching rare exposures, okay? So, you will try to figure out which specific type of study will you use to for researching rare exposures? And then the easy question. What is the definition of the G factor according to Spearman? So, this is a general idea and general framework that these guys are asking these kind of question, and you need to prepare accordingly for that, okay? Now, which What is the definition of the G factor? Okay, we have covered this thing. In existential therapy. So, what you have figured out is that therapy is very, very IMP. What you will cover? You will cover the existential, you will cover the humanistic as well, psychoanalyst, Gestalt, and all these kind of therapy, SFT, okay? And these kind of therapy you will cover majorly because they will ask from here only, okay? Now, and then we are having the ethnography is a research method primarily derived from which field? This question has been taken directly from the A book. You will find answers pretty much you will find answer. You will You don't need to read any other book apart from the CANF. This is it. If you will do properly every question, okay? Leaving these kind of mental health acts and some of the rare question, if you will leave, 95% 90 90 to 95% of questions you will find from here only, and if you want to practice these kind of questions, you should take the CANF 7000 and practice each and every basic, basic, basic question over there because everything is coming from these books only and this mock test series as well, okay? Now, ethnography is a research method primarily derived from Try to figure out. Is it about sociometry? Is it about anthropology? Is it about culturology or whatever that is? You'll find answers once you read the book. Now, what does the principle of non-maleficence mean in psychological ethics? Once again, you will open the C book or the A book for research ethics, you will find pretty much these kind of questions over there. Okay? All right. So, this was it. This was the previous year questions which was asked in the NIMHANS session of previous year. So, we will keep on updating this PDF, and you just need to go where? If you are a CMP member, you already got this right by now. And if you are not a CMP member, then you just need to simply join the Telegram group. All these PYQs are absolutely free for you. You just need to join the Telegram group, and from there you can access the from the media and the file section, you can access all these PYQs. You will get a better understanding with these questions, not just random things, okay? You will get a better understanding on how to or what kind of topics have been asked in the previous session, and how you can prepare well for the upcoming entrance of NIMHANS, okay? Might be you might be watching this video for the next 27 session or 28 session, 29, 30, whichever session you are watching this, make sure that you are updating yourself with these kind of PYQs, and you are joining the joining the Telegram group, and you have access to all these PYQs absolutely free over there, all okay? And now, what you need to do is we have covered in the previous video as well. So, from the I button you can check that video after this video is completed. It is not yet completed. Okay, so you can check it from there how to prepare and what things need to be taken care of. So, if you have watched this video till here, then these are the NIMHANS important PYQs which you will take care of, and you will prepare accordingly, okay? Because they will not dramatically or drastically change these sort of question, okay? They will ask They will PYQs will repeat. Don't worry, okay? PYQs will repeat. They have asked about all these kind of therapy. They will ask about the solution focused therapy very shortly. They will ask about the Gestalt therapy. If they have asked about Socrates questioning, mark my word, they are definitely going to ask about the empty chair technique in the upcoming 26 session, okay? So, if you find this question, you know you have watched the correct video. If not, still you have prepared, or they can ask about who has given the Gestalt therapy, the Fritz Perls and the Laura Perls over there. They can even ask about the CFIJ thing over there, okay? Confluence and retroflection, these kind of thing. What is inside these kind of therapy? So, all these questions you need to prepare in advance, okay? Because nobody knows what type of question and what kind of thing they are going to ask as they have never given the PYQs out there, okay? Because they are afraid that if somebody founds it, and the cut off will rise high, and they will be completely shattered, okay? All right. So, these are the PYQs. These are the memory-based compilations, and you need to prepare accordingly. Okay? And make sure that if you are giving that this entrance of 26, make sure that if you are watching this, if this helped you in the exam, do share the questions on our given mail ID so that it can help the future you as well, and those who will be giving the examination in 27, 28, 29 session, okay? By the time you will be a RCI holdy. I mean, not RCI holdy, license holdy, okay? With the CRR number, and then you will be proud that, okay, you watched the correct video, you practiced the proper questions, and now you will be able to clear the examination. But it's not just that these kind of questions will repeat again same to same, okay? Things will change. Bina Kamath will phase out. Maybe SLD might come into picture or dyslexia might come into picture, or this is Karl Lashley now. Might be Pavlov will coming into picture. Sigmund Freud we have not seen so far. He might come into picture. Jean Piaget has appeared, but he also can come for the next time, okay? So, all the summary All these kind of summary, how you can prepare in a short period of time, you will do the CANF books properly, okay? Once you are done with this properly, then you will do what? You will do the Corey for the psychotherapy, you will do the Pinel for the biopsychology, and and yes, that is it. And some basic RCI facts, the license not license, the mental health acts and these kind of thing. Even if if you simply Google it, it will be there on the very first page itself, okay? And you are so smart, you can just simply do the ChatGPT and the Gemini and whatever not that AI thing is, notebook LLM you can do, but be very, very careful with that, okay? They just give completely absurd and completely nonsensical time-wasting thing for you. So, just try to avoid if you can. If you are a very short period of time, try to give it next time, maybe, with proper knowledge. But if you are in a very short period of time, try to use it, but for to a limited extent, okay? They can lie, but these will not lie, okay? And these will not lie, and these will not lie, okay? So, with this I will end the video. I hope it helped you It helped you in your preparation and getting a idea of how these kind of questions have been framed or how these kind of questions are coming in the NIMHANS entrances and you will find these kind of questions some difficult, some easy, some moderate. But if you prepare properly from the C and F books, that is pretty much you are doing on the right path. You just need some luck in your favor. Maybe that day in those 2 hours you click on the right buttons we 1 and 1/2 hour. You click on the right buttons, you get your proper intuition on that day and all these we will talk about in our next video. But if you want this PYQ compilation over there, you just need to simply join the Telegram group and from there you can access all these 50 PYQs which came in the previous session of NIMHANS. Okay? All right. With this we'll end the video. Till then, goodbye. Take care. See you all soon. The Telegram link is given in the description and thank you and wish you all the very best. Why are you not going still? You should go. Go. Please go. See, you are not going. Go. Po. Po. Mhm? Still not going? You should go by now. Yes, you are there. Nearly there. You should go. You should definitely go now. Okay. Now, if you are watching till here, thank you. Now, we will discuss about the RPM. What this is RPM is this is your Raven's Progressive Matrices. Okay? What kind of test it is? It is a non-verbal and when we will use it is a performance or general. Okay? So, try to read from the e-book. It is given over there. Okay? As you can see, Raven Progressive Matrices Test is given over there as well and in the group test of intelligence what we have we have the Coalman Anderson Hanson Nelson. This is a UGC NET and the Cognitive Abilities Test over here as well. And for the creativity we are having the Torrance Test of Creativity in 1959-62 and the Remote Association Test RAT 1971. Okay? So, this was later by Mednick over there and then we are having this thing. Okay? Where it is? This is it. Okay? Let me just rotate it quickly. Quickly. Quickly. Yes. Now, we are having the Wechsler Bellevue Scale children about 10. See, in 1955 renamed as WAIS 11 subtests six verbal, five non-verbal. Then we are having WAIS-R 397 and currently we are having this thing WAIS-4. Okay? In 2008. So, it includes 10 core subtests five this thing Binet age scale no performance scale. Wechsler scale is having the point scale and performance scale is present over here as well. But in Binet Stanford-Binet we are not having the performance scale over here. Now, you should go. And yes, if you have watched till here, if you want these four-page quick notes from this beautiful handwriting, you just need to write on the this mail ID. Okay? Which is psychoprofessorclinical@gmail.com. You just need to mention this in the subject head and give me the note. This thing right there in the subject head and you will get this absolutely free cuz you have watched till here and now you can prepare well.