Blueprint MCAT Blog: MCAT Psychology

MCAT Psychology Question — Social Control

A local politician starts a task force to reduce prejudice and hate crimes, and the task force provides recommendations for increased access to education, paid community improvement projects open to people from different, possibly conflicted, groups, and stricter anti-hate ordinances to be passed at the local level. These recommendations are based on: I. Self-esteem hypothesis READ MORE

Jan 26, 2015

MCAT Psychology Question — Social Mobility

The son of a bricklayer goes to college and i) becomes a teacher at a medical school, ii) gets promoted to tenured professor, and iii) moves across the country for a new tenured professor position at a different school. Sequentially, this man has experienced: a) intergenerational mobility with respect to the father, horizontal mobility, horizontal READ MORE

Jan 22, 2015

MCAT Psychology Question — Dissociative Disorder

In response to period of extreme psychological trauma, a patient begins experiencing a feeling of detachment. He says, “I felt like it wasn’t real while it was happening. I was just watching myself do it without any control. I mean, you know, I knew it was happening but I didn’t feel like it was.” The READ MORE

Jan 16, 2015

MCAT Psychology Question — Societal Norms

A hedonic teenager of wayward morals, in one night, sequentially i) has consensual sexual intercourse with his sister, ii) leaves no tip at the bar, iii) has non-censual sexual relations with an unknown woman, and iv) vomits on the steps to the door of a local church. The teenager has violated society’s norms sequentially (to READ MORE

Jan 09, 2015

MCAT Psychoogy Question — Survey Theory

A small town in rural Pennsylvania has the highest per capita circulation of “The Quaker Home Journal,” a periodical running articles on animal husbandry, furniture repair, and crop growth. When the residents are polled on their preference among three of the hottest global pop-stars, 65% respond “never heard of them.” This is a demonstration of: READ MORE

Jan 08, 2015

MCAT Psychology Question — Sensory Systems

Which of the following statements identifies a chemically based sensory system? I. Gustatory system II. Auditory system III. Olfactory system A) I only B) II only C) III only D) I and III only READ MORE

Jan 06, 2015

MCAT Psychology Question — Limited Effect Theory

J. Edgar Hoover wrote an article titled “How Safe is your Daughter?” for American Magazine in 1947, including text that “degenerate sex offenders” were responsible for the “most rapidly increasing type of crime.” Along with other a few other highly publicized sex-crimes committed against minors, the effect caused one-third of surveyed Americans to conclude that READ MORE

Dec 30, 2014

MCAT Psychology Question — McDonaldization of Society

Each of the following are aspects of the McDonaldization of Society EXCEPT: A) Rationalization of decisions into cost/benefit analysis structures and away from traditional modes of thinking B) Bureaucratic organization that formalizes well-establish division of labor and impersonal structures C) A dissolution of hierarchical modes of authority into collaborative team-based decision protocols D) An READ MORE

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