← MCAT Prep MCAT Psych/Soc Passage Practice 25 experimental passages (140 questions) across Psych/Soc disciplines — the passage-based reps this section is built on. Practice one at a time with full explanations, or run the whole set.
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learning-and-memory Spacing, Testing, and Long-Term Retention Researchers examined how the scheduling of study influences durable memory for vocabulary. Undergraduates (N =…
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social-psychology Effort Justification and Group Initiation A classic line of research holds that when people freely choose to undergo an unpleasant experience to obtain …
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sociology Socioeconomic Gradients in Health Sociologists studying health disparities document a "social gradient": across many outcomes, health improves a…
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cognition-and-perception Top-Down Influences on Perception and Attention Perception is shaped both by incoming sensory data (bottom-up processing) and by expectations, context, and pr…
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developmental-psychology Attachment and the Strange Situation To classify the quality of infant–caregiver attachment, developmental psychologists use the Strange Situation,…
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biological-basis-of-behavior Chronic Stress, the HPA Axis, and Depression Acute stress activates the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis: the hypothalamus releases corticotropin-…
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sociology Bystander Intervention and Group Size Researchers tested how the number of bystanders affects helping in an emergency, drawing on the proposed mecha…
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sensation-and-perception Signal Detection in Radiologists Signal detection theory (SDT) holds that detecting a faint stimulus is not a simple matter of whether it excee…
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personality-and-disorders Locus of Control, Attribution, and Depression Personality and clinical researchers have long studied how people explain the events of their lives. Within th…
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sociology Demographic Transition and Intergenerational Mobility Demographers describe the demographic transition, a model in which societies move from a pre-industrial regime…
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psychological disorders Comparing CBT, Medication, and Their Combination in Depression Investigators conducted a 12-week randomized controlled trial of treatments for major depressive disorder (MDD…
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psychological disorders D2 Receptor Occupancy and the Dopamine Hypothesis Schizophrenia is characterized by positive symptoms—experiences added to normal function, such as hallucinatio…
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psychological disorders Learning Accounts and Exposure Treatments for Specific Phobia A clinic specializing in anxiety disorders studied adults with specific phobia of dogs. Intake interviews reve…
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psychological disorders Fear Memory and Reconsolidation in PTSD Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is marked by intrusion symptoms (unwanted trauma memories, flashbacks, ni…
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psychological disorders Reward Circuitry and Cue Reactivity in Substance Use Disorder Drugs of abuse converge on the mesolimbic reward pathway: dopaminergic neurons projecting from the ventral teg…
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social-psychology Conformity in Video-Conference Groups Researchers adapted a classic line-judgment conformity paradigm to a video-conference setting. Participants (N…
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social-psychology Identity Salience and Test Performance Investigators examined whether the framing of a difficult mathematics test alters performance among students t…
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sociology Network Ties and Ten-Year Mortality Sociologists distinguish bonding social capital—resources flowing through strong ties among similar, tightly c…
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sociology Diagnosing Distraction: ADHD and the Sick Role Between 2000 and 2020, the share of U.S. school-aged children ever diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactiv…
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sociology Segregation Indices and the Asthma Gap Residential segregation is commonly quantified with the index of dissimilarity, which ranges from 0 (each neig…
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cognition-and-perception Leading Questions and Eyewitness Memory Researchers examined whether information encountered after an event can alter eyewitness reports of that event…
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developmental-psychology Age of Exposure and ASL Grammar Because more than 90% of deaf children are born to hearing parents, first exposure to a full natural language—…
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developmental-psychology Tracking Identity Statuses Through Adolescence Erikson characterized adolescence as the stage of identity versus role confusion: the task of integrating one'…
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sensation-and-perception Weber Fractions Across the Senses A psychophysics laboratory measured discrimination thresholds in the same 40 participants across several senso…
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cognition-and-perception False Beliefs and the Child's Theory of Mind Theory of mind—the ability to attribute beliefs, desires, and intentions to others, including beliefs one know…
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Discrete questions Discrete Questions The following questions are independent of any passage — each stands alone, as in the discrete sets on the rea…
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