Khan Academy MCAT Practice Passages – Psychology and Sociology

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MCAT Khan Academy Psychology & Sociology Passages

Patient with a missing cerebellum

Could complete darkness be the cure for amblyopia?

Is obesity contagious?

Race, socioeconomic status, and nutrition

Romantic and sexual networks of adolescents

Marijuana usage as social behavior

Why do we believe that there are universal emotions?

Applications of operant conditioning in daily life

Miller’s law, chunking, and the capacity of working

“You seem familiar, but I can’t place your face”

Somatosensory effects of Temple Grandin’s squeeze box on hypersensitivity.

Exploring clinical applications of classical conditioning

Social conflict theory in an historical context

Visual pathways in the brain, and what happens when they break

Challenging beliefs to prevent eating disorders

Do beliefs about healthy food inform consumer choices?

Coping with cancer: novel methods of stress management

Clinical vignette of an adult psychiatric patient

Efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy for social anxiety disorder

Case study of panic disorder in an adult female

Navigating the stages of sleep

Cocaine addiction in mice

Changes in empathy throughout medical school and residency

Big five personality traits and health behaviors

Information processing and the discovery of iconic memory

Gestalt principles and ratings of physical attractiveness

Sensory adaptation and Weber's Law

Feline night vision

Sight (vision) - Passage 2

Differential effectiveness of cochlear implants

Functions of the basilar membrane

Phantom limb pain among veterans

Congenital analgesia

Diminished sensory input and the enjoyment of food

Taste disorders and their causes

Matchboxes and problem solving

Identifying intelligence types to increase student success

Linguistic patterns of English and Navajo speakers

Language deficits and traumatic brain injury

Effects of sleep deprivation on memory

Observing patients in a sleep clinic

Differential memory loss and Alzheimer's Disease

Remembering folk tales over time

Responses to emotion induction

Positive emotion and emotional eating

Stress, coping, and surgical error

PTSD and apoptosis

How similar are the personalities of twins?

Exploring an individual's temperament

A virus which affects mouse muscles

Diabetic peripheral neuropathy, pain, and acupuncture

Stress responses and the endocrine system

Effects of insulin deficiency

Antisocial personality disorder and inkblot tests

Freudian psychotherapy

Physiological needs and pregnancy

Smoking cessation and behavioral change

Group dynamics in a graduate school classroom

Dietary restriction and sorority dynamics

Marriage and family preferences

Marrage and family

Cigarette use in teen populations

Video game usage and aggressive behavior

Alternative education models and child development

Increasing Sarah's self-efficacy: A case study

Urban growth models

Social norms and deviant behavior

Population growth and immigration

The J-curve hypothesis

Fertility rates and demographic change

Socioeconomic status and mental illnesses

Are suicidal behaviors "contagious" in adolescence

What are your chances of getting divorced?

Malthusian population growth and population pyramid

Disparities in healthcare access

OCD and hoarding disorder

Clinical vignette of persistent depressive disorder

Gender differences in symptoms of major depressive disorder

Health after trauma- correlates of PTSD

Demographic disparities in food resources

Socioeconomic gradients in health

To cohabit or not to cohabit?

Educational attainment, income, and psychiatric disorders

Theories of language acquisition

Physiological stress response to cuss words?

Tickle me Nim. Do primates speak language?

Cats and dogs and conditioning

Can tickling help us understand some symptoms of schizophrenia?

Reciprocal altruism, vampire bats, and relatedness

Structure of the central nervous system

Spinal nerves and Guillain-Barre syndrome

Simultaneous hermaphroditism, egg trading, and the Prisoner’s Dilemma

Language location in the brain - ASL

Embodied cognition, hockey, does expertise impact text understanding?

Driving and talking on a cell phone

Counting systems and the Pirahã tribe

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