All videos of Psychology and Sociology for MCAT

Structure of the Nervous System

08:48 min

Functions of the Nervous System

06:38 min

Motor Unit

09:36 min

Peripheral Somatosensation

09:28 min

Muscle Stretch Reflex

09:34 min

Autonomic Nervous System

11:24 min

Gray and White Matter

06:18 min

Upper Motor Neurons

13:41 min

Somatosensory Tracts

07:07 min

Cerebellum

07:07 min

Brainstem

08:02 min

Subcortical Cerebrum

08:42 min

Overview: Functions of the Cerebral Cortex

05:43 min

Hemispheric Differences & Hemispheric Dominance

04:36 min

The Old Brain

07:11 min

Cerebral Cortex

08:22 min

Neurotransmitter Anatomy

08:23 min

Early Methods of Studying the Brain

06:27 min

Lesion Studies and Experimental Ablation

06:41 min

Modern Ways of Studying the Brain

05:18 min

Endocrine Gland Hormone Review

11:39 min

The Hypothalamus and Pituitary Gland

06:35 min

Hormone Concentration Metabolism and Negative Feedback

04:47 min

Types of Hormones

10:02 min

Cellular Mechanism of Hormone Action

08:23 min

From Terpenes to Steroids - 2

04:30 min

From Terpenes to Steroids - 1

07:49 min

Introduction to Mental Disorders

04:56 min

Categories of Mental Disorders

16:19 min

Schizophrenia

06:08 min

Biological Basis of Schizophrenia

13:38 min

Biological Basis of Depression

09:02 min

Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

11:24 min

Somatic Symptom Disorder and Other Disorders

05:54 min

Personality Disorders

08:21 min

Sleep Disorders

05:26 min

Sleep Wake Disorders Breathing Related Sleep Disorders

09:01 min

Reward Pathway in the Brain

08:26 min

Drug Dependence and Homeostasis

03:18 min

Tolerance and Withdrawal

05:33 min

Substance Use Disorders

07:31 min

Biological Basis of Alzheimer's Disease

11:15 min

Biological Basis of Parkinson's Disease

07:46 min

Depression and Major Depressive Disorder

11:19 min

Visual cues - Processing the Environment

08:01 min

Sensory adaptation

06:41 min

Weber's law and thresholds

09:01 min

Absolute threshold of sensation

04:43 min

Somatosensation - Processing the Environment

07:44 min

The vestibular system, balance, and dizziness

06:45 min

Signal detection theory - part 1

06:32 min

Signal detection theory - part 2

05:03 min

Bottom-up vs. top-down processing

04:27 min

Gestalt principles

08:08 min

The structure of the eye

10:28 min

Visual sensory information

08:02 min

The phototransduction cascade

09:56 min

Photoreceptors (rods vs cones)

05:06 min

Photoreceptor distribution in the fovea

05:43 min

Visual field processing

04:10 min

Feature detection and parallel processing

07:09 min

Auditory structure - Part 1

11:27 min

Auditory structure - Part 2

05:26 min

Structure of the Human Ear

12:44 min

Parts of the ear - Intro to Psychology

01:33 min

Auditory processing

07:03 min

Cochlear implants

03:08 min

Somatosensation - Processing the Environment

07:44 min

Sensory adaptation and amplification

04:05 min

Somatosensory homunculus

05:15 min

Proprioception and kinesthesia

05:18 min

Pain and temperature

06:00 min

Pheromones - Processing the Environment-

08:57 min

Olfaction - structure and function

12:46 min

Gustation - structure and function

12:31 min

States of consciousness

04:24 min

Sleep stages and circadian rhythms

07:57 min

Dreaming - Processing the Environment

03:55 min

Dream theories Freud, activation synthesis hypothesis

05:00 min

Sleep disorders

05:26 min

Hypnosis and meditation

04:29 min

Sleep wake disorders breathing related sleep disorders

09:01 min

Overview of psychoactive drugs

07:08 min

Psychoactive drugs: Depressants and opiates

04:27 min

Psychoactive drugs: Stimulants

03:19 min

Psychoactive drugs: Hallucinogens

03:46 min

Drug dependence and homeostasis

03:18 min

Routes of drug entry

03:51 min

Reward pathway in the brain

08:26 min

Tolerance and withdrawal

05:33 min

Substance use disorders

07:31 min

Treatments and triggers for drug dependence

07:43 min

Divided attention, selective attention, inattentional blindness, & change blindness

06:42 min

Theories of selective attention

05:00 min

The spotlight model of attention and our ability to multitask

07:28 min

Information processing model: Sensory, working, and long term memory

07:34 min

Encoding strategies

08:39 min

Retrieval cues

04:38 min

Retrieval: Free recall, cued recall, and recognition

04:25 min

Memory reconstruction, source monitoring & emotional memories

04:47 min

Long term potentiation and synaptic plasticity

02:37 min

Decay and interference

04:33 min

Aging and cognitive abilities

03:09 min

Alzheimer's disease and Korsakoff's syndrome

03:50 min

Piaget's stages of cognitive development

05:52 min

Schemas, assimilation, and accommodation

05:24 min

Problem solving - Processing the Environment

05:51 min

Decision making - Processing the Environment

06:34 min

Semantic networks and spreading activation

03:39 min

Intelligence - Processing the Environment

07:58 min

Aging and cognitive abilities

03:09 min

Theories of intelligence

07:11 min

Cognitive dissonance

04:48 min

Information processing model: Sensory, working, and long term memory

07:34 min

Theories of language and cognition

05:07 min

Theories of language development: Nativist, learning, interactionist

04:01 min

Language and the brain: Aphasia and split-brain patients

06:11 min

Emotions: limbic system

10:32 min

Emotions: cerebral hemispheres and prefrontal cortex

10:33 min

Reward pathway in the brain

08:26 min

Three components of emotion and the universal emotions

08:03 min

Autonomic nervous system (ANS) and physiologic markers of emotion

10:36 min

Theories of Emotion

08:14 min

What is stress?

06:06 min

Stressors - Processing the Environment

06:51 min

Responding to stress

08:46 min

Physical effects of stress

10:35 min

Behavioral effects of stress

06:18 min

Stress management

07:20 min

Structure of the nervous system

08:48 min

Functions of the nervous system

06:38 min

Motor unit - Organ Systems

09:36 min

Peripheral somatosensation

09:28 min

Muscle stretch reflex

09:34 min

Autonomic nervous system

11:24 min

Gray and white matter

06:18 min

Upper motor neurons

13:41 min

Somatosensory tracts

07:07 min

Cerebellum - Organ Systems

07:07 min

Brainstem - Organ Systems

08:02 min

Subcortical cerebrum

08:42 min

Overview of the functions of the cerebral cortex

05:43 min

Hemispheric differences and hemispheric dominance

04:36 min

The old brain

07:11 min

Cerebral cortex

08:22 min

Neurotransmitter anatomy

08:23 min

Early methods of studying the brain

06:27 min

Lesion studies and experimental ablation

06:41 min

Modern ways of studying the brain

05:18 min

Endocrine system and influence on behavior - Part 1

10:31 min

Endocrine system and influence on behavior - Part 2

07:01 min

Egg, sperm & fertilization

11:35 min

Early embryogenesis - Cleavage, blastulation, gastrulation, and neurulation

12:20 min

Implantation - Behavior

04:50 min

Germ layer derivatives

02:11 min

Gestation - Behavior

04:25 min

Major motor milestones

03:30 min

Motor development - Behavior

04:31 min

Neonatal reflexes

05:13 min

Physical development in adolescence

04:33 min

Brain changes during adolescence

06:30 min

Temperament, heredity & genes

09:28 min

Twin studies and adoption studies

09:52 min

Heritability - Behavior

06:41 min

Gene environment interaction

04:29 min

Regulatory genes

07:59 min

Adaptive value of behavioral traits

12:50 min

Physiological concept of positive and negative feedback

06:33 min

Instincts, Arousal, Needs, Drives: Drive-Reduction and Cognitive Theories

03:57 min

Maslow's hierarchy of needs

03:53 min

Incentive theory

03:37 min

Components of attitudes

04:59 min

Attitude influences behavior

10:04 min

Behavior influences attitude

05:56 min

Cognitive dissonance

04:48 min

Situational approach

06:35 min

Situational approach

06:35 min

Psychoanalytic theory

07:43 min

Maslow's hierarchy of needs

03:17 min

Humanistic theory

06:06 min

Biological theory

05:33 min

Behavioral theory

04:18 min

Trait theory - Behavior

10:01 min

Observational learning: Bobo doll experiment and social cognitive theory

09:45 min

Defense mechanisms

08:36 min

Freud - Death drive, reality principle & pleasure principle

05:10 min

Introduction to mental disorders

04:56 min

Categories of mental disorders

16:19 min

Schizophrenia - Behaviory

06:08 min

Biological basis of schizophrenia

13:38 min

Biological basis of depression

09:02 min

Anxiety disorders and obsessive compulsive disorder

11:24 min

Somatic symptom disorder and other disorders

05:54 min

Personality disorders

08:21 min

Sleep disorders

05:26 min

Sleep wake disorders breathing related sleep disorders

09:01 min

Reward pathway in the brain

08:26 min

Drug dependence and homeostasis

03:18 min

Tolerance and withdrawal

05:33 min

Substance use disorders

07:31 min

Biological basis of alzheimer's disease

11:15 min

Biological basis of parkinson's disease

07:46 min

Depression and bipolar disorder

04:34 min

Depression and major depressive disorder

11:19 min

Conformity and groupthink

07:35 min

Factors that influence obedience and conformity

07:45 min

Conformity and obedience

05:57 min

Asch conformity studies (Asch line studies)

09:56 min

Events that inspired the Milgram studies on obedience

04:00 min

Milgram experiment on obedience

07:06 min

What can we learn from the Milgram experiment

04:21 min

Zimbardo prison study The Stanford prison experiment

07:02 min

A closer look at the Stanford prison experiment

06:55 min

Bystander effect

07:01 min

Social facilitation and social loafing

04:38 min

What is normal? Exploring folkways, mores & taboos

07:56 min

Perspectives on deviance: Differential association, labeling theory & strain theory

06:31 min

Aspects of Collective Behavior: Fads, Mass Hysteria, and Riots

06:27 min

Classical conditioning: Neutral, conditioned & unconditioned stimuli and responses

05:46 min

Classical conditioning: Extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, discrimination

05:34 min

Operant conditioning: Positive-and-negative reinforcement and punishment

06:59 min

Operant conditioning: Shaping

07:20 min

Operant conditioning: Schedules of reinforcement

07:49 min

Operant conditioning: Innate vs learned behaviors

09:25 min

Operant conditioning: Escape and avoidance learning

02:20 min

Observational learning: Bobo doll experiment and social cognitive theory

09:46 min

Long term potentiation and synaptic plasticity

02:37 min

Non associative learning

03:59 min

Biological constraints on learning

10:36 min

Components of Attitudes

04:59 min

Attitude influences Behavior

10:04 min

Behavior influences attitude

05:56 min

Persuasion, attitude change & the elaboration likelihood model

05:43 min

Reciprocal determinism

02:58 min

Locus of control, learned helplessness & the tyranny of choice

06:38 min

Self control

08:23 min

Self Concept, Self Identity & social identity

09:38 min

Self esteem, self efficacy & locus of control

07:59 min

Overview of theories of development

07:45 min

Freud's psychosexual development

12:20 min

Erikson's psychosocial development

14:43 min

Kohlberg moral development | Individuals and Society

09:53 min

Kohlberg moral development

09:53 min

Social influences - Individuals and Society

11:28 min

George Herbert Mead- The I and the Me

05:28 min

Charles Cooley- Looking glass self

03:14 min

Attribution Theory - Basic covariation

04:38 min

Attribution theory - Attribution error and culture

05:28 min

Stereotypes stereotype threat and self fulfilling prophecies

06:14 min

Emotion and cognition in prejudice

07:13 min

Prejudice and discrimination based on race, ethnicity, power, social class, and prestige

03:13 min

Stigma - Social and self

07:16 min

Social perception - Primacy recency

04:51 min

Social perception - The Halo Effect

05:15 min

Social perception - The Just World Hypothesis

06:33 min

Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism in group and out group

08:43 min

Self esteem, self efficacy & locus of control

07:59 min

Self concept, self identity & social identity

09:38 min

Social influences - Individuals and Society

11:28 min

Locus of control, learned helplessness & the tyranny of choice

06:38 min

Proximity and the mere exposure effect

06:28 min

Physical attraction

06:15 min

Similarity - Individuals and Society

03:21 min

Harlow monkey experiments

03:23 min

Secure and insecure attachment

06:50 min

Aggression - Individuals and Society

07:56 min

Altruism - Individuals and Society

03:56 min

Social support

03:37 min

Status - Individuals and Society

02:47 min

Role strain and role conflict

02:18 min

Primary and secondary groups

03:40 min

Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism in group and out group

08:43 min

Dramaturgical approach

03:32 min

Impression management

04:08 min

Aggression - Individuals and Society

07:56 min

Harlow monkey experiments

03:23 min

Altruism - Individuals and Society-

03:56 min

Discrimination individual vs institutional

04:17 min

Prejudice vs discrimination

02:28 min

Prejudice and discrimination based on race, ethnicity, power, social class, and prestige

03:13 min

Organizations and bureaucratization

04:59 min

Social support - Individuals and Society

03:37 min

Characteristics of an ideal bureaucracy

04:37 min

Charles Cooley- Looking glass self

03:14 min

George Herbert Mead- The I and the Me

05:28 min

Three components of emotion and universal emotions

08:03 min

Animal behavior: foraging

02:14 min

Animal communication

04:22 min

Types of animal communication

08:58 min

Mating behavior and inclusive fitness

04:29 min

Evolutionary game theory

04:37 min

Discrimination individual vs institutional

04:17 min

Prejudice and discrimination based on race, ethnicity, power, social class and prestige

03:13 min

Stereotypes stereotype threat, and self fulfilling prophecy

06:14 min

Macrosociology vs microsociology

03:38 min

Social institutions

03:27 min

Social institutions - education, family, and religion

06:30 min

Social institutions - government, economy, health and medicine

04:52 min

Functionalism - Society and Culture

05:42 min

Conflict theory

04:38 min

Social constructionism

02:46 min

Symbolic interactionism

03:35 min

Social theories overview (part 1)

04:11 min

Rational choice-exchange theory

08:00 min

Social theories overview (part 2)

04:09 min

Relating social theories to medicine

09:30 min

Demographic structure of society - age

05:16 min

Demographic structure of society- race and ethnicity

05:47 min

Demographic structure of society - immigration

03:05 min

Demographic structure of society - sex, gender, and sexual orientation

07:41 min

Demographic structure of society overview

07:02 min

Urbanization - Society and Culture

08:09 min

Population dynamics

09:01 min

Demographic transition

07:46 min

Globalization theories

05:47 min

Globalization- trade and transnational corporations

06:32 min

Social movements

07:35 min

Overview of demographics

10:38 min

Culture and society

03:27 min

Overview of culture

04:19 min

Subculture vs counterculture