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MCAT Psychological Social Foundations lessons

5 sections · 76 skills · work through the full outline skill by skill — read the long-form lesson or flip through the slide-style version.
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MCAT Psychological Social Foundations

Practice 76 skills across this outline.

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Operant Conditioning and Reinforcement Schedules (7C)
Foundational Concept 7: Behavior and Behavior Change · Attitude and Behavior Change
Long-form lesson
Weighting distribution
11 categories
Foundational Concept 10: Social Inequality and Health
20%
Foundational Concept 9: Social Structure and Demographics · Demographic Processes
11%
Foundational Concept 6: Perception, Cognition, Emotion · Sensing the Environment
10%
Foundational Concept 6: Perception, Cognition, Emotion · Making Sense of the Environment
10%
Foundational Concept 9: Social Structure and Demographics · Social Structure
9%
Foundational Concept 8: Self and Social Interaction · Social Interactions
9%

Skills

The comprehensive taxonomy of mcat psychological social foundations — drill into a card to work its skills.

Foundational Concept 7: Behavior and Behavior Change · Attitude and Behavior Change

6 core skills7% total weight
0/6 completed
6 skills to mastery
1
Operant Conditioning and Reinforcement Schedules (7C)Recommended
Long-form
2
Cognitive Processes in Learning and Behavior Change (7C)Available
Long-form
3
Theories of Attitude and Behavior Change (7C)Available
Long-form
4
Observational Learning and Modeling (7C)Available
Long-form
5
Classical Conditioning and Associative Learning (7C)Available
Long-form
6
Habituation and Dishabituation (7C)Available
Long-form

Foundational Concept 7: Behavior and Behavior Change · Social Processes and Behavior

5 core skills5% total weight
0/5 completed
5 skills to mastery
1
Social Facilitation, Social Loafing, and Deindividuation (7B)Available
Long-form
2
Conformity, Obedience, and Peer Influence (7B)Available
Long-form
3
Group Decision-Making and Group Dynamics (7B)Available
Long-form
4
Socialization and Agents of Socialization (7B)Available
Long-form
5
Social Norms, Deviance, and Sanctions (7B)Available
Long-form

Foundational Concept 7: Behavior and Behavior Change · Individual Influences on Behavior

9 core skills8% total weight
0/9 completed
9 skills to mastery
1
Brain Structure, Neurotransmitters, and Behavior (7A)Available
Long-form
2
Attitudes, Attitude Formation, and Cognitive Dissonance (7A)Available
Long-form
3
Behavioral Genetics and Gene–Environment Interaction (7A)Available
Long-form
4
Biological Bases of Psychological Disorders (7A)Available
Long-form
5
Biological Bases of Behavior: Nervous and Endocrine Systems (7A)Available
Long-form
6
Human Development Across the Lifespan (7A)Available
Long-form
7
Motivation Theories and Biological Drives (7A)Available
Long-form
8
Personality Theories and Trait Perspectives (7A)Available
Long-form
9
Psychological Disorders and Classification (7A)Available
Long-form

Foundational Concept 6: Perception, Cognition, Emotion · Sensing the Environment

7 core skills10% total weight
0/7 completed
7 skills to mastery
1
Perceptual Organization and Gestalt Principles (6A)Available
Long-form
2
Auditory System Structure and Processing (6A)Available
Long-form
3
Kinesthetic and Vestibular Senses (6A)Available
Long-form
4
Sensation, Thresholds, and Psychophysics (6A)Available
Long-form
5
Sensory Receptors and Neural Pathways (6A)Available
Long-form
6
Somatosensation, Taste, and Smell (6A)Available
Long-form
7
Visual System Structure and Processing (6A)Available
Long-form

Foundational Concept 6: Perception, Cognition, Emotion · Making Sense of the Environment

8 core skills10% total weight
0/8 completed
8 skills to mastery
1
Forgetting, Memory Disorders, and Neural Plasticity (6B)Available
Long-form
2
Language Development and Language–Thought Relationships (6B)Available
Long-form
3
Attention and Information Processing (6B)Available
Long-form
4
Cognitive Development Across the Lifespan (6B)Available
Long-form
5
Consciousness, Sleep, and Circadian Rhythms (6B)Available
Long-form
6
Memory Encoding, Storage, and Retrieval (6B)Available
Long-form
7
Problem Solving, Decision-Making, and Biases (6B)Available
Long-form
8
Theories of Intelligence and Intellectual Variation (6B)Available
Long-form

Foundational Concept 9: Social Structure and Demographics · Social Structure

8 core skills9% total weight
0/8 completed
8 skills to mastery
1
Cultural Processes: Assimilation, Multiculturalism, and Diffusion (9A)Available
Long-form
2
Culture: Elements and Variations (9A)Available
Long-form
3
Government, Economy, and Power Structures (9A)Available
Long-form
4
Health, Medicine, and Social Epidemiology (9A)Available
Long-form
6
Religion and Social Change (9A)Available
Long-form
7
Social Institutions: Education and Family (9A)Available
Long-form
8
Sociological Theoretical Perspectives (9A)Available
Long-form

Foundational Concept 9: Social Structure and Demographics · Demographic Processes

8 core skills11% total weight
0/8 completed
8 skills to mastery
1
Race, Ethnicity, and Racialization (9B)Available
Long-form
2
Urbanization, Industrialization, and Social Change (9B)Available
Long-form
3
Demographic Structure: Age, Gender, and Life Course (9B)Available
Long-form
4
Demographic Transition and Population Pyramids (9B)Available
Long-form
5
Fertility, Mortality, and Population Growth (9B)Available
Long-form
6
Globalization and Transnational Processes (9B)Available
Long-form
7
Immigration, Migration, and Population Movement (9B)Available
Long-form
8
Social Movements and Collective Action (9B)Available
Long-form

Foundational Concept 8: Self and Social Interaction · Social Interactions

7 core skills9% total weight
0/7 completed
7 skills to mastery
1
Verbal and Nonverbal Communication (8C)Available
Long-form
2
Biological Bases of Social Behavior (8C)Available
Long-form
3
Discrimination: Individual and Institutional (8C)Available
Long-form
4
Group Structure and Group Membership (8C)Available
Long-form
5
Self-Presentation and Impression Management (8C)Available
Long-form
6
Social Behavior: Attraction, Aggression, and Altruism (8C)Available
Long-form
7
Status, Roles, and Role Conflict (8C)Available
Long-form

Foundational Concept 8: Self and Social Interaction · Self-Identity

5 core skills5% total weight
0/5 completed
5 skills to mastery
1
Self-Concept, Self-Esteem, and Self-Efficacy (8A)Available
Long-form
2
Cultural and Social Influences on Identity (8A)Available
Long-form
3
Identity Formation and Developmental Theories (8A)Available
Long-form
4
Locus of Control and Agency (8A)Available
Long-form
5
Social Identity and Group Membership (8A)Available
Long-form

Foundational Concept 8: Self and Social Interaction · Social Thinking

5 core skills6% total weight
0/5 completed
5 skills to mastery
1
Prejudice, Stereotypes, and Bias (8B)Available
Long-form
2
Attitudes, Beliefs, and Attitude Formation (8B)Available
Long-form
3
Attribution Processes and Attribution Errors (8B)Available
Long-form
4
Stereotype Threat and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (8B)Available
Long-form
5
Stigma, Ethnocentrism, and Cultural Relativism (8B)Available
Long-form

Foundational Concept 10: Social Inequality and Health

8 core skills20% total weight
0/8 completed
8 skills to mastery
1
Cultural Capital, Social Capital, and Meritocracy (10A)Available
Long-form
2
Environmental Justice and Health Risk Exposure (10A)Available
Long-form
3
Intersectionality and Health Disparities (10A)Available
Long-form
4
Power, Privilege, Prestige, and Social Reproduction (10A)Available
Long-form
5
Social Class, Socioeconomic Status, and Stratification (10A)Available
Long-form
6
Social Mobility: Intergenerational and Intragenerational (10A)Available
Long-form
7
Socioeconomic Gradient in Health and Global Inequality (10A)Available
Long-form
8
Spatial Inequality and Residential Segregation (10A)Available
Long-form