MCAT Psychology and Sociology
Reviewed Questions with Latest
2025-2026 Correct Answers
GRADED A+
1. Biopsychosocial Approach
- ANS - Illuminates the importance of psychological and
sociological study in medicine.
2. Biomedical Approach
- ANS - Focuses narrowly on the physical aspects of illness.
3. Social Constructionism
- ANS - Human actors construct or create "reality" rather than
discovering a reality that has inherent validity.
4. Symbolic Interactionism
- ANS - Explains social behavior in terms of how people interact
with each other via symbols.
5. Symbols
- ANS - Terms, concepts, or items that represent specific meanings
by accepted convention.
,6. Functionalism
- ANS - Factions of society work together to maintain stability.
Claims that society, like an organism, is a system that consists of
different components working together.
7. Conflict Theory
- ANS - Views society in terms of competing groups that act
according to their own self-interests, rather than according to the
need for societal equilibrium.
8. Culture
- ANS - All the beliefs, assumptions, objects, behaviors, and
processes that make up a shared way of life.
9. Material Culture
- ANS - The objects involved in a certain way of life (products
manufactured, tools used, art made, etc.).
10. Non-material culture
- ANS - Encompasses the elements of culture that are not physical
(ideas, knowledge, etc.).
11. Social Norms
- ANS - Expectations that govern what behavior is acceptable within
a group.
12. Social Group
- ANS - A subset of a population that maintains social interactions.
,13. Symbolic Culture
- ANS - A type of non-material culture that consists of the elements
of culture that have meaning only in the mind.
14. Rituals
- ANS - Formal, ceremonial behaviors with a specific purpose and
significance.
15. Society
- ANS - Two or more individuals living together in a community
and/or sharing elements of culture.
16. Social Institutions
- ANS - Hierarchical systems that bring order to interpersonal
interactions, structuring society.
17. Government and Economy
- ANS - 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.
18. Education
- ANS - 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.
, 19. Religion
- ANS - 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.
20. Family
- ANS - A type of social institution. Consist of bonds of kin and
marriage and make up a major organizing institution of society.
21. Health and Medicine
- ANS - A type of social institution. Fulfills the need for healthcare
in an organized manner.
22. Demographics
- ANS - Statistics used to examine the nature of a specific
population.
23. Demographic Parameters (examples)
- ANS - Age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, immigration
status.
24. Demographic Transition
- ANS - A demographic change that takes place over time.
25. Fertility
- ANS - The production of offspring within a population.
Reviewed Questions with Latest
2025-2026 Correct Answers
GRADED A+
1. Biopsychosocial Approach
- ANS - Illuminates the importance of psychological and
sociological study in medicine.
2. Biomedical Approach
- ANS - Focuses narrowly on the physical aspects of illness.
3. Social Constructionism
- ANS - Human actors construct or create "reality" rather than
discovering a reality that has inherent validity.
4. Symbolic Interactionism
- ANS - Explains social behavior in terms of how people interact
with each other via symbols.
5. Symbols
- ANS - Terms, concepts, or items that represent specific meanings
by accepted convention.
,6. Functionalism
- ANS - Factions of society work together to maintain stability.
Claims that society, like an organism, is a system that consists of
different components working together.
7. Conflict Theory
- ANS - Views society in terms of competing groups that act
according to their own self-interests, rather than according to the
need for societal equilibrium.
8. Culture
- ANS - All the beliefs, assumptions, objects, behaviors, and
processes that make up a shared way of life.
9. Material Culture
- ANS - The objects involved in a certain way of life (products
manufactured, tools used, art made, etc.).
10. Non-material culture
- ANS - Encompasses the elements of culture that are not physical
(ideas, knowledge, etc.).
11. Social Norms
- ANS - Expectations that govern what behavior is acceptable within
a group.
12. Social Group
- ANS - A subset of a population that maintains social interactions.
,13. Symbolic Culture
- ANS - A type of non-material culture that consists of the elements
of culture that have meaning only in the mind.
14. Rituals
- ANS - Formal, ceremonial behaviors with a specific purpose and
significance.
15. Society
- ANS - Two or more individuals living together in a community
and/or sharing elements of culture.
16. Social Institutions
- ANS - Hierarchical systems that bring order to interpersonal
interactions, structuring society.
17. Government and Economy
- ANS - 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.
18. Education
- ANS - 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.
, 19. Religion
- ANS - 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.
20. Family
- ANS - A type of social institution. Consist of bonds of kin and
marriage and make up a major organizing institution of society.
21. Health and Medicine
- ANS - A type of social institution. Fulfills the need for healthcare
in an organized manner.
22. Demographics
- ANS - Statistics used to examine the nature of a specific
population.
23. Demographic Parameters (examples)
- ANS - Age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, immigration
status.
24. Demographic Transition
- ANS - A demographic change that takes place over time.
25. Fertility
- ANS - The production of offspring within a population.
