MCAT: Psychology & Sociology
Correct and Verified QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
Biopsychosocial Approach - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Illuminates the importance of
psychological and sociological study in medicine.
Biomedical Approach - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Focuses narrowly on the physical
aspects of illness.
Social Constructionism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Human actors construct or create
"reality" rather than discovering a reality that has inherent validity.
Symbolic Interactionism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Explains social behavior in terms of
how people interact with each other via symbols.
Symbols - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Terms, concepts, or items that represent specific
meanings by accepted convention.
Functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Factions of society work together to maintain
stability. Claims that society, like an organism, is a system that consists of different components
working together.
Conflict Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Views society in terms of competing groups
that act according to their own self-interests, rather than according to the need for societal
equilibrium.
Culture - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅All the beliefs, assumptions, objects, behaviors, and
processes that make up a shared way of life.
,Material Culture - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The objects involved in a certain way of life
(products manufactured, tools used, art made, etc.).
Non-material culture - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Encompasses the elements of culture that
are not physical (ideas, knowledge, etc.).
Social Norms - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Expectations that govern what behavior is
acceptable within a group.
Social Group - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A subset of a population that maintains social
interactions.
Symbolic Culture - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A type of non-material culture that consists
of the elements of culture that have meaning only in the mind.
Rituals - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Formal, ceremonial behaviors with a specific purpose
and significance.
Society - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Two or more individuals living together in a
community and/or sharing elements of culture.
Social Institutions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Hierarchical systems that bring order to
interpersonal interactions, structuring society.
Government and Economy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A type of social institution. _____
provides order to society through the services it provides and making/enforcing law. The _____
distributes goods and services to meet the needs of society.
Education - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A type of social institution. Provides a formal
structure during childhood/transition into adulthood and an opportunity to instruct youth on the
social norms, knowledge, skills, expectations needed.
, Religion - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A type of social institution. A system of beliefs that
affects how people make sense of their experiences and provides a framework for questions
about life, death, existence.
Family - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A type of social institution. Consist of bonds of kin
and marriage and make up a major organizing institution of society.
Health and Medicine - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A type of social institution. Fulfills the
need for healthcare in an organized manner.
Demographics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Statistics used to examine the nature of a
specific population.
Demographic Parameters (examples) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Age, gender, race,
ethnicity, sexual orientation, immigration status.
Demographic Transition - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A demographic change that takes
place over time.
Fertility - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The production of offspring within a population.
Mortality - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The death rate within a population.
Migration - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The relocation of people from one place to another.
Social Movement - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A group of people who share an ideology
and work together toward a specified set of goals.
Correct and Verified QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
Biopsychosocial Approach - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Illuminates the importance of
psychological and sociological study in medicine.
Biomedical Approach - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Focuses narrowly on the physical
aspects of illness.
Social Constructionism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Human actors construct or create
"reality" rather than discovering a reality that has inherent validity.
Symbolic Interactionism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Explains social behavior in terms of
how people interact with each other via symbols.
Symbols - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Terms, concepts, or items that represent specific
meanings by accepted convention.
Functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Factions of society work together to maintain
stability. Claims that society, like an organism, is a system that consists of different components
working together.
Conflict Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Views society in terms of competing groups
that act according to their own self-interests, rather than according to the need for societal
equilibrium.
Culture - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅All the beliefs, assumptions, objects, behaviors, and
processes that make up a shared way of life.
,Material Culture - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The objects involved in a certain way of life
(products manufactured, tools used, art made, etc.).
Non-material culture - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Encompasses the elements of culture that
are not physical (ideas, knowledge, etc.).
Social Norms - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Expectations that govern what behavior is
acceptable within a group.
Social Group - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A subset of a population that maintains social
interactions.
Symbolic Culture - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A type of non-material culture that consists
of the elements of culture that have meaning only in the mind.
Rituals - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Formal, ceremonial behaviors with a specific purpose
and significance.
Society - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Two or more individuals living together in a
community and/or sharing elements of culture.
Social Institutions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Hierarchical systems that bring order to
interpersonal interactions, structuring society.
Government and Economy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A type of social institution. _____
provides order to society through the services it provides and making/enforcing law. The _____
distributes goods and services to meet the needs of society.
Education - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A type of social institution. Provides a formal
structure during childhood/transition into adulthood and an opportunity to instruct youth on the
social norms, knowledge, skills, expectations needed.
, Religion - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A type of social institution. A system of beliefs that
affects how people make sense of their experiences and provides a framework for questions
about life, death, existence.
Family - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A type of social institution. Consist of bonds of kin
and marriage and make up a major organizing institution of society.
Health and Medicine - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A type of social institution. Fulfills the
need for healthcare in an organized manner.
Demographics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Statistics used to examine the nature of a
specific population.
Demographic Parameters (examples) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Age, gender, race,
ethnicity, sexual orientation, immigration status.
Demographic Transition - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A demographic change that takes
place over time.
Fertility - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The production of offspring within a population.
Mortality - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The death rate within a population.
Migration - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The relocation of people from one place to another.
Social Movement - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A group of people who share an ideology
and work together toward a specified set of goals.
