MCAT Psychological and Social Foundations Practice Tests

Topics

• MCAT Social and Behavioral

  • Environment and Sensation

    • Vision

      • Physiology of the Eye

      • Processing and Integrating Visual Signals

    • Hearing

      • Physiology of the Ear

      • Processing and Integrating Auditory Signals

    • Other Senses and Sensation Principles

      • Principles of Sensation+5 topics

        • Sensory Threshold and Weber's Law

        • Detection Theory and Sensory Adaptation

        • Other Sensory Principles

        • Perceptual Concepts and Organization

        • Perceptual Processing Theories and Gestalt

  • Consciousness and Thought

    • Cognition

      • Cognitive Development

    • Memory

      • Memory Creation and Encoding

      • Memory Disorders, Aging, and Forgetting

      • Other Memory Principles

    • Consciousness and Sleep

      • Sleep Cycles and Stages of Sleep

      • Pathways and Processed of Consciousness-Altering Drugs

  • Stress and Emotion

    • Stress

      • Physiology and Stress

      • Responses to Stress

      • Stress Management

      • Other Stress Principles

    • Emotion

      • Theories of Emotional Processing

      • Other Concepts of Emotion

  • Individual Behavior and Learning

    • Physiology of Behavior

      • Neural Physiology+1 topic

        • Neurons and Neural Physiology

      • Brain and Nervous System+1 topic

        • Studying the Brain and Nervous System

    • Conditioning, Learning, and Behavior Change

      • Associative Learning+2 topics

        • Classical Conditioning

        • Operative Conditioning

      • Learning and Behavior Change+3 topics

        • Elaboration Likelihood Model

        • Social Cognitive Theory

        • Other Aspects of Behavior Change

  • Group Behavior and Sociological Phenomena

    • Behavioral Phenomena Within a Group

      • Deindividuation

      • Bystander Effect

      • Group Polarization and Groupthink

    • Culture

      • Social Institutions and Norms+3 topics

        • Social Norms and Mores

        • Health and Illness

        • Other Social Institutions

      • Cultural Phenomena+2 topics

        • Culture Lag

        • Assimilation

    • Attribution, Discrimination, and Stereotype

      • Prejudice

      • Discrimination

    • Social Behaviors

      • Explaining Social Behavior

    • Social Change

      • Globalization

    • Social Class and Inequality

      • Spatial Inequality

      • Power, Privilege, and Prestige

  • Psychological Disorders and Anomalies

    • Studying Psychological Disorders

      • Classifying Disorders

    • Types of Psychological Disorders

      • Anxiety and Trauma-Related Disorders

      • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

      • Bipolar Disorder

      • Personality Disorders

      • Schizophrenia

      • Depressive Disorders

    • Biology and Treatment of Specific Disorders

      • Schizophrenia and Depression

      • Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease