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Unit 1: Welcome to the MCAT course
About the MCAT and how to use this course
Unit 2: Practice Passages: Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems
Unit 3: Practice Passages: Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems
Unit 4: Practice Passages: Psychological, Social, and Biological Foundations of Behavior
Unit 5: Practice Passages: Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills (CARS)
Critical analysis and reasoning skills (CARS) practice questions
CARS overview ✓ Check-ins3:51
Foundations of comprehension ✓ Check-ins11:12
Reasoning within the text ✓ Check-ins8:12
Reasoning beyond the text ✓ Check-ins5:58
Worked example: Living in a rational society ✓ Check-ins19:32
Worked example: The happy American ✓ Check-ins18:43
Worked example: Seeing color through Homer's eyes ✓ Check-ins20:25
Worked example: Physical education in the UK ✓ Check-ins15:10
Worked example: The honest truth about dishonesty ✓ Check-ins27:53
Unit 6: Foundation 1: Biomolecules
Amino acids and proteins
Amino acid structure ✓ Check-ins10:55
Peptide bonds: Formation and cleavage ✓ Check-ins7:11
Classification of amino acids ✓ Check-ins6:06
Special cases: Histidine, proline, glycine, cysteine ✓ Check-ins8:18
Isoelectric point and zwitterions ✓ Check-ins5:25
Four levels of protein structure ✓ Check-ins8:49
Conformational stability: Protein folding and denaturation ✓ Check-ins7:44
Protein analysis techniques
Enzyme structure and function
Introduction to enzymes and catalysis ✓ Check-ins6:05
Enzymes and activation energy ✓ Check-ins5:32
Induced fit model of enzyme catalysis ✓ Check-ins6:44
Co-factors, co-enzymes, and vitamins ✓ Check-ins5:21
Six types of enzymes ✓ Check-ins7:04
Enzymes and their local environment ✓ Check-ins4:31
Non-enzymatic protein function ✓ Check-ins10:44
Enzyme kinetics
DNA and DNA replication
DNA ✓ Check-ins13:02
Molecular structure of DNA ✓ Check-ins13:01
Antiparallel structure of DNA strands ✓ Check-ins9:57
Leading and lagging strands in DNA replication ✓ Check-ins10:19
Speed and precision of DNA replication ✓ Check-ins3:55
Telomeres and single copy DNA vs repetitive DNA ✓ Check-ins5:34
DNA repair 1 ✓ Check-ins11:16
DNA repair 2 ✓ Check-ins9:18
Semi-conservative replication ✓ Check-ins2:12
Transcription and translation
Central dogma of molecular biology ✓ Check-ins4:22
Central dogma - revisited ✓ Check-ins6:12
Transcription and mRNA processing ✓ Check-ins10:25
Translation (mRNA to protein) ✓ Check-ins14:10
Differences in translation between prokaryotes and eukaryotes ✓ Check-ins6:36
Protein modifications ✓ Check-ins15:43
Gene control
Jacob-Monod: The Lac operon ✓ Check-ins6:11
Jacob Monod lac operon ✓ Check-ins11:58
DNA and chromatin regulation ✓ Check-ins5:21
Regulation of transcription ✓ Check-ins6:47
Post-transcriptional regulation ✓ Check-ins6:08
Non-coding RNA (ncRNA) ✓ Check-ins4:40
Oncogenes ✓ Check-ins7:01
Tumor suppressors ✓ Check-ins4:44
Genetic mutations
Mendelian genetics and related concepts
Meiosis and other inheritance factors
DNA technology
Evidence that DNA is genetic material 1 ✓ Check-ins4:50
Evidence that DNA is genetic material 2 ✓ Check-ins10:16
Gel electrophoresis ✓ Check-ins11:00
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) ✓ Check-ins9:54
DNA libraries & generating cDNA ✓ Check-ins3:43
DNA cloning and recombinant DNA ✓ Check-ins11:08
Hybridization (microarray) ✓ Check-ins8:57
Expressing cloned genes ✓ Check-ins3:22
Southern blot ✓ Check-ins5:10
DNA sequencing ✓ Check-ins4:41
Gene expression and function ✓ Check-ins3:31
Restriction enzymes ✓ Check-ins7:58
Applications of DNA technologies ✓ Check-ins5:01
Safety and ethics of DNA technologies ✓ Check-ins4:20
Evolution and population dynamics
Hardy-Weinberg equation ✓ Check-ins8:14
Applying the Hardy-Weinberg equation ✓ Check-ins5:30
Evolution and natural selection ✓ Check-ins5:01
Fitness and fecundity ✓ Check-ins4:27
Alternative selection ✓ Check-ins4:34
Genetic drift, bottleneck effect, and founder effect ✓ Check-ins10:47
Inbreeding ✓ Check-ins4:43
Reproductive isolation ✓ Check-ins4:59
Principles of bioenergetics
Overview of metabolism
Overview of metabolism: Anabolism and catabolism ✓ Check-ins8:41
ATP: Adenosine triphosphate ✓ Check-ins6:19
ATP hydrolysis: Gibbs free energy ✓ Check-ins7:41
ATP hydrolysis: Transfer of a phosphate group ✓ Check-ins9:46
Oxidation and reduction review from biological point-of-view ✓ Check-ins13:29
Oxidation and reduction in metabolism ✓ Check-ins10:07
Electron carrier molecules ✓ Check-ins10:02
ATP hydrolysis mechanism ✓ Check-ins5:35
Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates - naming and classification ✓ Check-ins10:27
Carbohydrates - absolute configuration, epimers, common names ✓ Check-ins11:15
Carbohydrates - Cyclic structures and anomers ✓ Check-ins11:12
Carbohydrates- di and polysaccharides ✓ Check-ins13:01
Keto-enol tautomerization (by Jay) ✓ Check-ins11:29
Carbohydrate Metabolism
Krebs (citric acid) cycle and oxidative phosphorylation
Krebs / citric acid cycle ✓ Check-ins17:47
Regulation of pyruvate dehydrogenase ✓ Check-ins9:02
Regulation of Krebs-TCA cycle ✓ Check-ins11:45
Electron transport chain ✓ Check-ins17:16
Oxidative phosphorylation and chemiosmosis ✓ Check-ins4:59
Regulation of oxidative phosphorylation ✓ Check-ins9:50
Calculating ATP produced in cellular respiration ✓ Check-ins15:25
Fat and protein metabolism
Introduction to energy storage16:27
Digestion, Mobilization, and Transport of Fats - Part I ✓ Check-ins10:08
Digestion, Mobilization, and Transport of Fats - Part II ✓ Check-ins14:46
Fatty Acid Synthesis - Part I ✓ Check-ins13:59
Fatty Acid Synthesis - Part II ✓ Check-ins17:21
Overview of Fatty Acid Oxidation ✓ Check-ins6:05
Fatty Acid Oxidation - Part I ✓ Check-ins9:20
Fatty Acid Oxidation - Part II ✓ Check-ins12:46
How does the body adapt to starvation? ✓ Check-ins14:56
Overview of Amino Acid Metabolism ✓ Check-ins13:20
Unit 7: Foundation 2: Cells
Cell membrane overview
Transport across a cell membrane
How do things move across a cell membrane? ✓ Check-ins11:50
Passive Transport by Facilitated Diffusion ✓ Check-ins5:16
Diffusion and osmosis ✓ Check-ins18:59
Exocytosis ✓ Check-ins4:17
Membrane potentials - part 1 ✓ Check-ins8:22
Membrane potentials - part 2 ✓ Check-ins8:45
Permeability and membrane potentials ✓ Check-ins12:42
Cell-cell interactions
Eukaryotic cells
Cytoskeleton
Prokaryotes/bacteria
Viruses
Cellular division
Meiosis and embryology
Comparing mitosis and meiosis ✓ Check-ins5:51
Phases of meiosis I ✓ Check-ins9:45
Phases of meiosis II ✓ Check-ins10:58
Fertilization terminology ✓ Check-ins10:27
Egg, sperm, and fertilization ✓ Check-ins11:35
Early embryogenesis - Cleavage, blastulation, gastrulation, and neurulation ✓ Check-ins12:20
Implantation ✓ Check-ins4:50
Gestation ✓ Check-ins4:25
Germ layer derivatives ✓ Check-ins2:11
Unit 8: Foundation 3: Organ systems
The nervous system
Structure of the nervous system ✓ Check-ins8:48
Functions of the nervous system ✓ Check-ins6:38
Somatosensory tracts ✓ Check-ins7:07
Autonomic vs somatic nervous system ✓ Check-ins3:48
Motor unit ✓ Check-ins9:36
Muscle stretch reflex ✓ Check-ins9:34
Upper motor neurons ✓ Check-ins13:41
Autonomic nervous system ✓ Check-ins11:24
Human brain (parts & functions)4:41
Neural cells
Neuron membrane potentials
Neuron resting potential description ✓ Check-ins7:15
Neuron resting potential mechanism ✓ Check-ins13:16
Neuron action potential description ✓ Check-ins6:54
Neuron action potential mechanism ✓ Check-ins9:23
Effects of axon diameter and myelination ✓ Check-ins10:46
Action potential patterns ✓ Check-ins5:05
Neuronal synapses
Endocrine system and hormonal regulation
Endocrine gland hormone review ✓ Check-ins11:39
The hypothalamus and pituitary gland ✓ Check-ins6:35
Hormone concentration metabolism and negative feedback ✓ Check-ins4:47
Types of hormones ✓ Check-ins10:02
Cellular mechanism of hormone action ✓ Check-ins8:23
From terpenes to steroids part 1: Terpenes ✓ Check-ins7:49
From terpenes to steroids part 2: Squalene, cholesterol, and steroids ✓ Check-ins4:29
Respiratory system
Circulatory system
Meet the heart! ✓ Check-ins10:09
Parts of the heart ✓ Check-ins12:13
Flow through the heart ✓ Check-ins7:51
Two circulations in the body ✓ Check-ins12:25
Lub dub ✓ Check-ins9:50
Layers of a blood vessel ✓ Check-ins10:11
Arteries vs. veins - what's the difference? ✓ Check-ins7:44
Resistance in a tube ✓ Check-ins8:54
Putting it all together: Pressure, flow, and resistance ✓ Check-ins11:50
Thermoregulation in the circulatory system ✓ Check-ins7:02
Hematologic system
What's inside of blood? ✓ Check-ins11:09
Hemoglobin moves O2 and CO2 ✓ Check-ins14:58
Bohr effect vs. Haldane effect ✓ Check-ins13:53
Blood types ✓ Check-ins8:53
How do we make blood clots? ✓ Check-ins11:45
Coagulation cascade ✓ Check-ins14:39
Life and times of RBCs and platelets ✓ Check-ins10:35
Blood cell lineages ✓ Check-ins8:04
Lymphatic system
Immune system
Role of phagocytes in innate or nonspecific immunity ✓ Check-ins16:20
Types of immune responses: Innate and adaptive, humoral vs. cell-mediated ✓ Check-ins8:07
B lymphocytes (B cells) ✓ Check-ins14:13
Professional antigen presenting cells (APC) and MHC II complexes ✓ Check-ins11:33
Helper T cells ✓ Check-ins20:33
Cytotoxic T cells ✓ Check-ins10:06
Review of B cells, CD4+ T cells and CD8+ T cells ✓ Check-ins11:07
Clonal selection ✓ Check-ins9:49
Self vs. non-self immunity ✓ Check-ins14:29
How white blood cells move around ✓ Check-ins8:48
Blood cell lineages8:20
Gastrointestinal system
Meet the gastrointestinal tract! ✓ Check-ins5:21
Mouth ✓ Check-ins7:30
Esophagus ✓ Check-ins5:34
Stomach ✓ Check-ins5:58
Small intestine 1: Structure6:30
Small intestine 2: Digestion ✓ Check-ins6:45
Small intestine 3: Absorption ✓ Check-ins4:55
Liver ✓ Check-ins6:28
Biliary tree ✓ Check-ins6:00
Exocrine pancreas ✓ Check-ins9:49
Endocrine pancreas ✓ Check-ins6:50
Colon, rectum, and anus ✓ Check-ins9:45
Control of the GI tract9:56
Hormonal regulation of metabolism
Renal system
Meet the kidneys! ✓ Check-ins6:24
Kidney function and anatomy ✓ Check-ins7:58
Glomerular filtration in the nephron ✓ Check-ins7:18
Changing glomerular filtration rate ✓ Check-ins4:25
The kidney and nephron ✓ Check-ins18:38
Secondary active transport in the nephron ✓ Check-ins14:13
Countercurrent multiplication in the kidney ✓ Check-ins10:53
Urination ✓ Check-ins9:33
Renal regulation of blood pressure
General overview of the RAAS system: Cells and hormones ✓ Check-ins14:09
Renin production in the kidneys ✓ Check-ins14:09
Activating angiotensin 2 ✓ Check-ins10:20
Angiotensin 2 raises blood pressure ✓ Check-ins10:40
Aldosterone raises blood pressure and lowers potassium ✓ Check-ins13:18
Aldosterone removes acid from the blood ✓ Check-ins11:20
ADH secretion ✓ Check-ins15:05
ADH effects on blood pressure ✓ Check-ins9:33
Aldosterone and ADH ✓ Check-ins9:47
Reproductive system
Welcome to the reproductive system ✓ Check-ins6:38
Anatomy of the male reproductive system ✓ Check-ins10:03
Spermatogenesis ✓ Check-ins10:28
Testosterone ✓ Check-ins9:40
Basics of egg development ✓ Check-ins7:19
The ovarian cycle ✓ Check-ins10:45
Meet the placenta! ✓ Check-ins12:33
Reproductive cycle graph - Follicular phase ✓ Check-ins8:39
Reproductive cycle graph - Luteal phase ✓ Check-ins9:05
Estrogen ✓ Check-ins7:21
Labor (parturition) ✓ Check-ins10:26
Muscular system
Muscle innervation ✓ Check-ins5:14
Motor neurons ✓ Check-ins7:19
Neuromuscular junction, motor end-plate ✓ Check-ins9:00
Three types of muscle ✓ Check-ins11:29
Calcium puts myosin to work ✓ Check-ins10:03
Anatomy of a skeletal muscle cell ✓ Check-ins12:42
Myosin and actin ✓ Check-ins9:38
How tropomyosin and troponin regulate muscle contraction ✓ Check-ins9:22
Role of the sarcoplasmic reticulum in muscle cells ✓ Check-ins14:42
Skeletal system
Integumentary system
Meet the skin! (Overview) ✓ Check-ins5:16
What is skin? (Epidermis) ✓ Check-ins11:08
What lies beneath the epidermis? (Dermis and Hypodermis) ✓ Check-ins10:07
Where do our nails and hair come from? ✓ Check-ins8:38
What's in sweat? (Holocrine, Apocrine, Merocrine Glands) ✓ Check-ins6:26
LeBron Asks: Why does sweating cool you down? ✓ Check-ins5:41
Thermoregulation mechanisms ✓ Check-ins8:23
Unit 9: Foundation 4: Physical processes
Vectors and scalars
Translational motion and calculations
Calculating average speed and velocity edited ✓ Check-ins11:18
Solving for time ✓ Check-ins9:35
Displacement from time and velocity example ✓ Check-ins5:00
Instantaneous speed and velocity ✓ Check-ins4:38
Acceleration ✓ Check-ins9:06
Airbus A380 take-off time ✓ Check-ins8:08
Airbus A380 take-off distance ✓ Check-ins5:29
Why distance is area under velocity-time line ✓ Check-ins9:26
Average velocity for constant acceleration ✓ Check-ins14:10
Force and Newton's laws of motion
Vector analysis and forces acting on an object
Balanced and unbalanced forces ✓ Check-ins8:11
Normal force and contact force ✓ Check-ins7:18
Normal force in an elevator ✓ Check-ins11:49
Slow sock on Lubricon VI ✓ Check-ins4:47
Normal forces on Lubricon VI ✓ Check-ins7:12
Inclined plane force components ✓ Check-ins12:42
Ice accelerating down an incline ✓ Check-ins10:37
Force of friction keeping the block stationary ✓ Check-ins8:19
Correction to force of friction keeping the block stationary0:51
Force of friction keeping velocity constant ✓ Check-ins8:58
Introduction to tension ✓ Check-ins10:19
Introduction to tension (part 2) ✓ Check-ins10:19
Tension in an accelerating system and pie in the face ✓ Check-ins9:28
Intuition on static and kinetic friction comparisons ✓ Check-ins7:21
Static and kinetic friction example ✓ Check-ins9:50
Work and energy
Introduction to work and energy ✓ Check-ins9:18
Work and energy (part 2) ✓ Check-ins9:51
Work and the work-energy theorem ✓ Check-ins5:48
Work as the transfer of energy ✓ Check-ins3:17
Work example problems ✓ Check-ins4:50
Conservation of energy ✓ Check-ins9:57
Work/energy problem with friction ✓ Check-ins10:05
Intro to springs and Hooke's law ✓ Check-ins10:05
Potential energy stored in a spring ✓ Check-ins10:00
Spring potential energy example (mistake in math) ✓ Check-ins9:38
Conservative forces ✓ Check-ins4:02
Power ✓ Check-ins5:46
Introduction to mechanical advantage ✓ Check-ins10:02
Fluids at rest
Pressure and Pascal's principle (part 1) ✓ Check-ins9:46
Pressure and Pascal's principle (part 2) ✓ Check-ins10:12
Pressure at a depth in a fluid ✓ Check-ins9:54
Finding height of fluid in a barometer ✓ Check-ins10:09
Archimedes principle and buoyant force ✓ Check-ins8:41
Buoyant force example problems edited ✓ Check-ins9:22
Specific gravity ✓ Check-ins3:10
Fluids in motion
Volume flow rate and equation of continuity ✓ Check-ins9:59
Bernoulli's equation derivation part 1 ✓ Check-ins10:08
Bernoulli's equation derivation part 2 ✓ Check-ins10:09
Finding fluid speed exiting hole ✓ Check-ins8:35
More on finding fluid speed from hole ✓ Check-ins5:19
Finding flow rate from Bernoulli's equation ✓ Check-ins7:46
Viscosity and Poiseuille flow ✓ Check-ins11:06
Turbulence at high velocities and Reynold's number ✓ Check-ins2:10
Surface Tension and Adhesion ✓ Check-ins6:38
Venturi effect and Pitot tubes ✓ Check-ins9:58- Two circulations in the body ✓ Check-ins12:25
- Arteries vs. veins - what's the difference? ✓ Check-ins7:44
- Resistance in a tube ✓ Check-ins8:54
- Putting it all together: Pressure, flow, and resistance ✓ Check-ins11:50
Gas phase
Absolute temperature and the kelvin scale10:14
Pressure and the simple mercury barometer ✓ Check-ins7:51
Definition of an ideal gas, ideal gas law ✓ Check-ins5:43
Derivation of gas constants using molar volume and STP ✓ Check-ins7:31
Boyle's law ✓ Check-ins10:45
Charles's law8:07
Avogadro's law ✓ Check-ins8:12
The van der Waals equation ✓ Check-ins5:17
Partial pressure ✓ Check-ins12:18
Kinetic molecular theory of gases
Electrostatics
Current and resistance
Capacitors
Magnetism
Electrochemistry
Redox reaction from dissolving zinc in copper sulfate ✓ Check-ins5:01
Introduction to galvanic/voltaic cells ✓ Check-ins6:00
Electrodes and voltage of Galvanic cell ✓ Check-ins4:33
Shorthand notation for galvanic/voltaic cells ✓ Check-ins7:17
Free energy and cell potential ✓ Check-ins7:48
Standard reduction potentials ✓ Check-ins9:10
Voltage as an intensive property ✓ Check-ins4:39
Using reduction potentials ✓ Check-ins6:04
Spontaneity and redox reactions ✓ Check-ins12:22
Standard cell potential and the equilibrium constant ✓ Check-ins4:38
Calculating the equilibrium constant from the standard cell potential edited ✓ Check-ins9:39
Nernst equation5:51
Using the Nernst equation11:30
Concentration cell ✓ Check-ins9:03
Introduction to electrolysis ✓ Check-ins6:55
Quantitative electrolysis ✓ Check-ins6:40
Electrolysis of molten sodium chloride edited ✓ Check-ins10:27
Lead storage battery ✓ Check-ins9:06
Nickel-cadmium battery ✓ Check-ins11:07
Sound
Production of sound ✓ Check-ins3:46
Sound properties: amplitude, period, frequency, wavelength ✓ Check-ins5:16
Speed of sound ✓ Check-ins3:45
Relative speed of sound in solids, liquids, and gases ✓ Check-ins3:19
Decibel Scale ✓ Check-ins10:30
Why do sounds get softer? ✓ Check-ins8:48
Ultrasound medical imaging ✓ Check-ins5:35
Standing waves in open tubes ✓ Check-ins14:19
Standing waves in closed tubes ✓ Check-ins9:57
Doppler effect introduction ✓ Check-ins10:36
Doppler effect formula for observed frequency ✓ Check-ins10:13
Doppler effect formula when source is moving away ✓ Check-ins9:18
When the source and the wave move at the same velocity ✓ Check-ins7:35
Doppler effect for a moving observer ✓ Check-ins5:16
Doppler effect: reflection off a moving object ✓ Check-ins7:49
Light and electromagnetic radiation
Electromagnetic waves and the electromagnetic spectrum ✓ Check-ins11:02
Polarization of light ✓ Check-ins14:30
Wave interference ✓ Check-ins14:29
Young's double slit introduction ✓ Check-ins9:33
Young's double slit equation ✓ Check-ins6:41
Young's double slit problem solving ✓ Check-ins7:09
Diffraction grating ✓ Check-ins14:21
Single slit interference ✓ Check-ins15:00
More on single slit interference ✓ Check-ins13:06
Thin film interference (part 1) ✓ Check-ins12:03
Thin film interference (part 2) ✓ Check-ins12:03
Photon energy ✓ Check-ins9:18
Infrared and Ultraviolet/Visible spectroscopy
Introduction to infrared spectroscopy ✓ Check-ins9:25
Bonds as springs ✓ Check-ins12:20
Signal characteristics - wavenumber ✓ Check-ins15:25
IR spectra for hydrocarbons ✓ Check-ins13:02
Signal characteristics - intensity ✓ Check-ins5:35
Signal characteristics - shape ✓ Check-ins9:17
Symmetric and asymmetric stretching ✓ Check-ins11:02
IR signals for carbonyl compounds ✓ Check-ins12:52
IR spectra practice ✓ Check-ins5:54
UV/Vis spectroscopy ✓ Check-ins11:12
Absorption in the visible region ✓ Check-ins5:11
Conjugation and color ✓ Check-ins9:34
Proton nuclear magnetic resonance
Introduction to proton NMR ✓ Check-ins10:27
Nuclear shielding ✓ Check-ins10:22
Chemical equivalence ✓ Check-ins10:44
Chemical shift ✓ Check-ins5:51
Electronegativity and chemical shift ✓ Check-ins11:02
Diamagnetic anisotropy ✓ Check-ins9:18
Integration ✓ Check-ins4:30
Spin-spin splitting (coupling) ✓ Check-ins12:22
Multiplicity: n + 1 rule ✓ Check-ins9:45
Coupling constant ✓ Check-ins6:10
Complex splitting ✓ Check-ins7:55
Hydrogen deficiency index ✓ Check-ins8:51
Proton NMR practice 1 ✓ Check-ins11:36
Proton NMR practice 2 ✓ Check-ins13:31
Proton NMR practice 3 ✓ Check-ins7:23
Thin lenses
Convex lenses ✓ Check-ins9:23
Convex lens examples ✓ Check-ins9:36
Concave lenses ✓ Check-ins3:06
Object image and focal distance relationship (proof of formula) ✓ Check-ins12:29
Object image height and distance relationship ✓ Check-ins2:22
Thin lens equation and problem solving ✓ Check-ins12:57
Multiple lens systems ✓ Check-ins14:07
Diopters, Aberration, and the Human Eye ✓ Check-ins12:57
Spherical mirrors
Reflection and refraction
Atomic nucleus
Atomic number, mass number, and isotopes ✓ Check-ins9:44
Atomic mass ✓ Check-ins8:33
Mass defect and binding energy ✓ Check-ins11:28
Nuclear stability and nuclear equations ✓ Check-ins8:25
Writing nuclear equations for alpha, beta, and gamma decay ✓ Check-ins8:07
Types of decay ✓ Check-ins17:03
Half-life and carbon dating ✓ Check-ins ✎ Fixed a slip12:31
Half-life plot ✓ Check-ins6:47
Exponential decay formula proof (can skip, involves calculus) ✓ Check-ins12:22
Introduction to exponential decay ✓ Check-ins6:52
Exponential decay and semi-log plots ✓ Check-ins10:16
More exponential decay examples7:06
Mass spectrometer ✓ Check-ins11:30
Electronic structure
Photoelectric effect10:24
Bohr model radii (derivation using physics) ✓ Check-ins10:52
Bohr model radii ✓ Check-ins6:57
Bohr model energy levels (derivation using physics) ✓ Check-ins12:08
Bohr model energy levels9:47
Absorption and emission ✓ Check-ins10:30
Emission spectrum of hydrogen ✓ Check-ins10:46
Heisenberg uncertainty principle ✓ Check-ins9:39
Quantum numbers ✓ Check-ins12:00
Quantum numbers for the first four shells ✓ Check-ins12:37
Electron configurations for the first period ✓ Check-ins6:22
Electron configurations for the second period ✓ Check-ins12:12
Electron configurations for the third and fourth periods ✓ Check-ins13:08
Electron configurations of the 3d transition metals ✓ Check-ins12:33
Paramagnetism and diamagnetism ✓ Check-ins8:05
Periodic table
Electronegativity and bonding ✓ Check-ins11:39
The periodic table ✓ Check-ins8:56
The periodic table - transition metals ✓ Check-ins5:34
Counting valence electrons for main group elements ✓ Check-ins8:19
Atomic and ionic radii ✓ Check-ins11:26
Ionization energy: group trend ✓ Check-ins10:19
Ionization energy: period trend ✓ Check-ins10:03
First and second ionization energy ✓ Check-ins7:35
Electron affinity: period trend ✓ Check-ins13:06
Stoichiometry
Empirical formula from mass composition edited ✓ Check-ins6:13
Molecular and empirical formulas15:11
The mole and Avogadro's number ✓ Check-ins8:57
Stoichiometry example problem 1 ✓ Check-ins11:36
Stoichiometry ✓ Check-ins9:24
Limiting reactant example problem 1 edited ✓ Check-ins18:04- Specific gravity ✓ Check-ins3:10
Balancing chemical equations
Unit 10: Foundation 5: Chemical processes
Acid/base equilibria
Acid-base definitions ✓ Check-ins7:49
Ka and acid strength ✓ Check-ins9:18
Autoionization of water ✓ Check-ins7:35
Definition of pH ✓ Check-ins12:10
Strong acid solutions ✓ Check-ins6:18
Strong base solutions ✓ Check-ins5:27
Weak acid equilibrium ✓ Check-ins9:31
Weak base equilibrium ✓ Check-ins11:22
Relationship between Ka and Kb ✓ Check-ins11:20
Acid–base properties of salts ✓ Check-ins13:33
pH of salt solutions ✓ Check-ins14:15
Common ion effect and buffers ✓ Check-ins13:19
Buffer solutions ✓ Check-ins6:37
Buffer solution pH calculations ✓ Check-ins11:39
Titrations
Acid–base titrations ✓ Check-ins8:50
Worked example: Determining solute concentration by acid–base titration ✓ Check-ins7:50
Titration of a strong acid with a strong base ✓ Check-ins10:12
Titration of a strong acid with a strong base (continued) ✓ Check-ins10:17
Titration of a weak acid with a strong base ✓ Check-ins14:27
Titration of a weak acid with a strong base (continued) ✓ Check-ins15:13
Titration of a weak base with a strong acid ✓ Check-ins14:58
Titration of a weak base with a strong acid (continued) ✓ Check-ins14:48
Titration curves and acid-base indicators ✓ Check-ins7:10
Redox titrations ✓ Check-ins7:58
Solubility equilibria
Common polyatomic ions ✓ Check-ins5:48
Dissolution and precipitation ✓ Check-ins10:00
Introduction to solubility equilibria ✓ Check-ins8:17
Worked example: Calculating solubility from Kₛₚ ✓ Check-ins4:52
The common-ion effect ✓ Check-ins10:08
pH and solubility ✓ Check-ins5:14
Solubility and complex ion formation ✓ Check-ins14:50
Dot structures
Drawing dot structures ✓ Check-ins14:42
Formal charge and dot structures ✓ Check-ins11:30
Resonance and dot structures ✓ Check-ins6:15
VSEPR for 2 electron clouds ✓ Check-ins8:04
VSEPR for 3 electron clouds ✓ Check-ins12:33
VSEPR for 4 electron clouds ✓ Check-ins10:05
VSEPR for 5 electron clouds (part 1) ✓ Check-ins14:58
VSEPR for 5 electron clouds (part 2) ✓ Check-ins10:48
VSEPR for 6 electron clouds ✓ Check-ins12:29
Stereochemistry
Structural (constitutional) isomers ✓ Check-ins9:52
Chiral vs achiral ✓ Check-ins4:17
Stereoisomers, enantiomers, and chirality centers ✓ Check-ins5:28
Identifying chirality centers ✓ Check-ins8:08
R,S system ✓ Check-ins9:47
R,S system practice ✓ Check-ins8:44
Optical activity ✓ Check-ins9:02
Enantiomers and diastereomers ✓ Check-ins8:09
Cis–trans isomerism ✓ Check-ins5:24
E–Z system ✓ Check-ins11:34
Conformations of ethane ✓ Check-ins10:03
Conformational analysis of butane ✓ Check-ins10:14
Covalent bonds
- Electronegativity and bonding ✓ Check-ins11:39
Intermolecular forces ✓ Check-ins8:36
sp³ hybridization ✓ Check-ins10:43
Steric number ✓ Check-ins9:47
Molecular polarity ✓ Check-ins9:22
sp² hybridization ✓ Check-ins12:42
sp hybridization ✓ Check-ins11:00
Worked examples: Finding the hybridization of atoms in organic molecules ✓ Check-ins10:21- Acid-base definitions ✓ Check-ins7:49
Separations and purifications
Simple and fractional distillations ✓ Check-ins9:30
Extractions ✓ Check-ins8:39
Basics of chromatography ✓ Check-ins9:16
Thin layer chromatography (TLC) ✓ Check-ins5:07
Calculating retention factors for TLC ✓ Check-ins7:21
Column chromatography ✓ Check-ins6:39
Gas chromatography ✓ Check-ins8:38
Gel electrophoresis ✓ Check-ins6:59
Resolution of enantiomers ✓ Check-ins5:02
Nucleic acids, lipids, and carbohydrates
Nucleic acid structure 1 ✓ Check-ins10:03- Antiparallel structure of DNA strands ✓ Check-ins9:57
Saponification - Base promoted ester hydrolysis ✓ Check-ins7:56
Lipids - Structure in cell membranes ✓ Check-ins10:11
Lipids as cofactors and signaling molecules ✓ Check-ins7:43
Carbohydrates - Naming and classification ✓ Check-ins10:28
Fischer projections ✓ Check-ins13:52
Carbohydrates - Epimers, common names ✓ Check-ins11:17- Carbohydrates - Cyclic structures and anomers ✓ Check-ins11:12
Carbohydrate - Glycoside formation hydrolysis ✓ Check-ins10:42
Keto-enol tautomerization (by Sal) ✓ Check-ins8:03
Disaccharides and polysaccharides ✓ Check-ins13:03
Amino acids, peptides, proteins
- Central dogma of molecular biology ✓ Check-ins4:22
- Central dogma - revisited ✓ Check-ins6:12
- Amino acid structure ✓ Check-ins10:55
- Peptide bonds: Formation and cleavage ✓ Check-ins7:11
- Special cases: Histidine, proline, glycine, cysteine ✓ Check-ins8:18
- Isoelectric point and zwitterions ✓ Check-ins5:25
- Classification of amino acids ✓ Check-ins6:06
- Four levels of protein structure ✓ Check-ins8:49
- Conformational stability: Protein folding and denaturation ✓ Check-ins7:44
Proteins
- Amino acid structure ✓ Check-ins10:55
Alpha amino acid synthesis ✓ Check-ins5:24- Classification of amino acids ✓ Check-ins6:06
- Peptide bonds: Formation and cleavage ✓ Check-ins7:11
- Four levels of protein structure ✓ Check-ins8:49
Conformational stability: Protein folding and denaturation ✓ Check-ins7:44- Non-enzymatic protein function ✓ Check-ins10:44
Carbohydrates
- Carbohydrates- di and polysaccharides ✓ Check-ins13:01
Carbohydrates - cyclic structures and anomers ✓ Check-ins11:11- Carbohydrates - absolute configuration, epimers, common names ✓ Check-ins11:15
- Carbohydrates - naming and classification ✓ Check-ins10:27
- Keto-enol tautomerization (by Jay) ✓ Check-ins11:29
Alpha-carbon chemistry
- Keto-enol tautomerization (by Jay) ✓ Check-ins11:29
Enolate formation from aldehydes ✓ Check-ins6:12
Enolate formation from ketones ✓ Check-ins10:18
Kinetic and thermodynamic enolates ✓ Check-ins8:19
Aldol condensation ✓ Check-ins11:23
Mixed (crossed) aldol condensation ✓ Check-ins9:25
Mixed (crossed) aldol condensation using a lithium enolate9:01
Retro-aldol and retrosynthesis ✓ Check-ins11:13
Intramolecular aldol condensation ✓ Check-ins12:02
Aldehydes and ketones
Nomenclature of aldehydes and ketones12:38
Physical properties of aldehydes and ketones ✓ Check-ins10:13
Reactivity of aldehydes and ketones ✓ Check-ins10:05
Formation of hydrates ✓ Check-ins7:27
Formation of hemiacetals and hemiketals ✓ Check-ins10:44
Acid and base catalyzed formation of hydrates and hemiacetals ✓ Check-ins10:26
Formation of acetals ✓ Check-ins14:15
Acetals as protecting groups and thioacetals ✓ Check-ins8:25
Formation of imines and enamines13:33
Formation of oximes and hydrazones ✓ Check-ins9:40
Addition of carbon nucleophiles to aldehydes and ketones ✓ Check-ins9:33
Formation of alcohols using hydride reducing agents ✓ Check-ins11:35
Oxidation of aldehydes using Tollens' reagent ✓ Check-ins9:21
Alcohols and phenols
Alcohol nomenclature ✓ Check-ins12:07
Properties of alcohols ✓ Check-ins11:17
Oxidation of alcohols ✓ Check-ins12:39
Oxidation of alcohols (examples) ✓ Check-ins7:03
Protection of alcohols ✓ Check-ins7:54
Preparation of mesylates and tosylates ✓ Check-ins8:41
SN1 and SN2 reactions of alcohols ✓ Check-ins10:23
Biological redox reactions of alcohols and phenols ✓ Check-ins9:47
Aromatic stability of benzene ✓ Check-ins6:00
Aromatic heterocycles ✓ Check-ins11:49
Carboxylic acids
Carboxylic acid nomenclature and properties ✓ Check-ins8:52
Reduction of carboxylic acids ✓ Check-ins8:54
Preparation of esters via Fischer esterification ✓ Check-ins9:37
Preparation of acyl (acid) chlorides ✓ Check-ins10:23
Preparation of acid anhydrides ✓ Check-ins7:09
Preparation of amides using DCC11:54
Decarboxylation ✓ Check-ins6:47
Alpha-substitution of carboxylic acids ✓ Check-ins9:06
Carboxylic acid derivatives
Nomenclature and properties of acyl (acid) halides and acid anhydrides ✓ Check-ins10:20
Nomenclature and properties of esters ✓ Check-ins10:31
Nomenclature and properties of amides ✓ Check-ins8:50
Reactivity of carboxylic acid derivatives ✓ Check-ins9:03
Nucleophilic acyl substitution ✓ Check-ins9:29
Acid-catalyzed ester hydrolysis ✓ Check-ins11:26
Acid and base-catalyzed hydrolysis of amides ✓ Check-ins11:47
Beta-lactam antibiotics ✓ Check-ins9:14
Enzymes
Reaction rates
Introduction to reaction rates ✓ Check-ins9:14
Rate law and reaction order ✓ Check-ins10:39
Worked example: Determining a rate law using initial rates data ✓ Check-ins12:28
First-order reaction (with calculus) ✓ Check-ins7:14
Plotting data for a first-order reaction ✓ Check-ins9:21
Half-life of a first-order reaction ✓ Check-ins8:16
Worked example: Using the first-order integrated rate law and half-life equations ✓ Check-ins10:20
Second-order reaction (with calculus) ✓ Check-ins7:14
Half-life of a second-order reaction ✓ Check-ins7:09
Zero-order reaction (with calculus) ✓ Check-ins9:53
Collision theory ✓ Check-ins8:48
The Arrhenius equation ✓ Check-ins9:24
Forms of the Arrhenius equation ✓ Check-ins6:41
Using the Arrhenius equation ✓ Check-ins11:06
Elementary reactions ✓ Check-ins5:35
Reaction mechanism and rate law ✓ Check-ins8:42
Catalysts ✓ Check-ins7:30- Kinetic and thermodynamic enolates ✓ Check-ins8:19
Equilibrium
Dynamic equilibrium ✓ Check-ins8:11
Writing equilibrium constant and reaction quotient expressions ✓ Check-ins7:03
Le Chȃtelier’s principle: Changing concentration ✓ Check-ins8:38
Le Chȃtelier’s principle: Changing volume ✓ Check-ins11:09
Le Chȃtelier’s principle: Changing temperature ✓ Check-ins11:16
Changes in free energy and the reaction quotient ✓ Check-ins15:47
Standard change in free energy and the equilibrium constant ✓ Check-ins10:46
Galvanic cells and changes in free energy ✓ Check-ins12:38
Bioenergetics
Thermodynamics
Specific heat and latent heat of fusion and vaporization ✓ Check-ins14:57
Zeroth law of thermodynamics ✓ Check-ins6:12
First law of thermodynamics equation ✓ Check-ins11:23
First law of thermodynamics problem solving ✓ Check-ins7:34
PV diagrams - part 1: Work and isobaric processes ✓ Check-ins11:54
PV diagrams - part 2: Isothermal, isometric, adiabatic processes ✓ Check-ins13:00
Second law of thermodynamics13:41
Thermochemistry
Phase diagrams ✓ Check-ins12:36
Heat transfer ✓ Check-ins4:15
Enthalpy ✓ Check-ins8:34
Enthalpy ✓ Check-ins15:07
Heat of formation ✓ Check-ins12:35
Hess's law and reaction enthalpy change ✓ Check-ins15:40
Gibbs free energy and spontaneity ✓ Check-ins17:40
Gibbs free energy example ✓ Check-ins9:57
More rigorous Gibbs free energy / spontaneity relationship ✓ Check-ins13:56
A look at a seductive but wrong Gibbs spontaneity proof ✓ Check-ins6:41
Unit 11: Foundation 6: Processing the environment
Sensory perception
Visual cues8:02
Sensory adaptation ✓ Check-ins6:41
Weber's law and thresholds ✓ Check-ins9:01
Absolute threshold of sensation4:43
Somatosensation ✓ Check-ins7:44
The vestibular system, balance, and dizziness ✓ Check-ins6:45
Signal detection theory - part 1 ✓ Check-ins6:32
Signal detection theory - part 2 ✓ Check-ins5:03
Bottom-up vs. top-down processing ✓ Check-ins4:27
Gestalt principles ✓ Check-ins8:08
Overview of Sensation and Meissner's Corpuscle8:03
Pacinian's Corpuscle and Merkel's Disk ✓ Check-ins7:18
Ruffini's Ending and Hair Follicle Receptor ✓ Check-ins7:32
Sight (vision)
The structure of the eye ✓ Check-ins10:28
Visual sensory information ✓ Check-ins8:02
The phototransduction cascade ✓ Check-ins9:56
Photoreceptors (rods vs cones) ✓ Check-ins5:06
Photoreceptor distribution in the fovea ✓ Check-ins5:43
Visual field processing ✓ Check-ins4:10
Feature detection and parallel processing ✓ Check-ins7:09
Sound (Audition)
Somatosensation
Taste (gustation) and smell (olfaction)
Sleep and consciousness
Drug dependence
Overview of psychoactive drugs ✓ Check-ins7:08
Psychoactive drugs: Depressants and opiates4:27
Psychoactive drugs: Stimulants ✓ Check-ins3:19
Psychoactive drugs: Hallucinogens ✓ Check-ins3:46
Drug dependence and homeostasis ✓ Check-ins3:18
Routes of drug entry ✓ Check-ins3:51
Reward pathway in the brain ✓ Check-ins8:26
Tolerance and withdrawal ✓ Check-ins5:33
Substance use disorders ✓ Check-ins7:31
Treatments and triggers for drug dependence ✓ Check-ins7:43
Attention
Memory
Information processing model: Sensory, working, and long term memory ✓ Check-ins7:34
Encoding strategies ✓ Check-ins8:39
Retrieval cues ✓ Check-ins4:38
Retrieval: Free recall, cued recall, and recognition ✓ Check-ins4:25
Memory reconstruction, source monitoring, and emotional memories ✓ Check-ins4:47
Long term potentiation and synaptic plasticity ✓ Check-ins2:37
Decay and interference ✓ Check-ins4:33
Aging and cognitive abilities ✓ Check-ins3:09
Alzheimer's disease and Korsakoff's syndrome ✓ Check-ins3:50
Semantic networks and spreading activation ✓ Check-ins3:39
Cognition
Piaget's stages of cognitive development ✓ Check-ins5:52
Schemas, assimilation, and accommodation ✓ Check-ins5:24
Problem solving ✓ Check-ins5:51
Decision making ✓ Check-ins6:34- Semantic networks and spreading activation ✓ Check-ins3:39
Intelligence ✓ Check-ins7:58
Theories of intelligence ✓ Check-ins7:11
Aging and cognitive abilities ✓ Check-ins3:10
Cognitive dissonance ✓ Check-ins4:48- Information processing model: Sensory, working, and long term memory ✓ Check-ins7:34
Language
Emotion
Unit 12: Foundation 7: Behavior
Biological basis of behavior: Nervous system
- Structure of the nervous system ✓ Check-ins8:48
- Functions of the nervous system ✓ Check-ins6:38
- Motor unit ✓ Check-ins9:36
Peripheral somatosensation ✓ Check-ins9:28- Muscle stretch reflex ✓ Check-ins9:34
- Autonomic nervous system ✓ Check-ins11:24
Gray and white matter ✓ Check-ins6:18- Upper motor neurons ✓ Check-ins13:41
- Somatosensory tracts ✓ Check-ins7:07
Overview of the functions of the cerebral cortex ✓ Check-ins5:44
Hemispheric differences and hemispheric dominance ✓ Check-ins4:37
The old brain ✓ Check-ins7:11
Cerebellum ✓ Check-ins7:07
Brainstem ✓ Check-ins8:02
Subcortical cerebrum ✓ Check-ins8:42
Cerebral cortex ✓ Check-ins8:22
Neurotransmitter anatomy ✓ Check-ins8:23
Early methods of studying the brain ✓ Check-ins6:27
Lesion studies and experimental ablation ✓ Check-ins6:41
Modern ways of studying the brain ✓ Check-ins5:18
Endocrine system and influence on behavior - Part 1 ✓ Check-ins10:31
Endocrine system and influence on behavior - Part 2 ✓ Check-ins7:01
Human development
- Egg, sperm, and fertilization ✓ Check-ins11:35
- Early embryogenesis - Cleavage, blastulation, gastrulation, and neurulation ✓ Check-ins12:20
- Implantation ✓ Check-ins4:50
- Germ layer derivatives ✓ Check-ins2:11
- Gestation ✓ Check-ins4:25
Major motor milestones ✓ Check-ins3:30
Motor development ✓ Check-ins4:31
Neonatal reflexes ✓ Check-ins5:13
Physical development in adolescence ✓ Check-ins4:33
Brain changes during adolescence ✓ Check-ins6:30
Behavior and genetics
Motivation and attitudes
Physiological concept of positive and negative feedback ✓ Check-ins6:33
Instincts, Arousal, Needs, Drives: Drive-Reduction and Cognitive Theories3:57
Maslow's hierarchy of needs ✓ Check-ins3:53
Incentive theory ✓ Check-ins3:37
Biological and Sociocultural Factors Food, Sex, and Drugs ✓ Check-ins9:13
Components of attitudes ✓ Check-ins4:59
Attitude influences behavior ✓ Check-ins10:04
Behavior influences attitude ✓ Check-ins5:57- Cognitive dissonance ✓ Check-ins4:48
Situational approach ✓ Check-ins6:35
Theories of personality
- Situational approach ✓ Check-ins6:35
Psychoanalytic theory ✓ Check-ins7:43
Maslow's hierarchy of needs ✓ Check-ins3:17
Humanistic theory ✓ Check-ins6:06
Biological theory ✓ Check-ins5:33
Behavioral theory ✓ Check-ins4:18
Trait theory ✓ Check-ins10:01
Observational learning: Bobo doll experiment and social cognitive theory ✓ Check-ins9:46
Defense mechanisms ✓ Check-ins8:36
Freud - Death drive, reality principle, and pleasure principle ✓ Check-ins5:10
Psychological disorders
Introduction to mental disorders ✓ Check-ins4:56
Categories of mental disorders ✓ Check-ins16:19
Schizophrenia ✓ Check-ins6:08
Biological basis of schizophrenia ✓ Check-ins13:38
Biological basis of depression ✓ Check-ins9:02
Anxiety disorders and obsessive compulsive disorder11:24
Somatic symptom disorder and other disorders5:54
Personality disorders ✓ Check-ins8:21
Sleep disorders ✓ Check-ins5:26
Sleep wake disorders breathing related sleep disorders ✓ Check-ins9:01- Reward pathway in the brain ✓ Check-ins8:26
- Drug dependence and homeostasis ✓ Check-ins3:18
- Tolerance and withdrawal ✓ Check-ins5:33
Substance use disorders ✓ Check-ins7:31
Biological basis of parkinson's disease ✓ Check-ins7:46
Depression and major depressive disorder ✓ Check-ins11:19
Depression and bipolar disorder ✓ Check-ins4:34
Social psychology
Conformity and groupthink ✓ Check-ins7:35
Conformity and obedience ✓ Check-ins5:58
Asch conformity studies (Asch line studies) ✓ Check-ins9:56
Events that inspired the Milgram studies on obedience ✓ Check-ins4:00
Milgram experiment on obedience ✓ Check-ins7:06
What can we learn from the Milgram experiment ✓ Check-ins4:21
Zimbardo prison study The Stanford prison experiment ✓ Check-ins7:02
A closer look at the Stanford prison experiment ✓ Check-ins6:55
Factors that influence obedience and conformity ✓ Check-ins7:45
Bystander effect ✓ Check-ins7:01
Social facilitation and social loafing ✓ Check-ins4:38
Agents of socialization ✓ Check-ins4:44
Normative and non-normative behavior
Learning
Classical conditioning: Neutral, conditioned, and unconditioned stimuli and responses5:47
Classical conditioning: Extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, discrimination ✓ Check-ins5:34
Operant conditioning: Positive-and-negative reinforcement and punishment7:00
Operant conditioning: Shaping ✓ Check-ins7:20
Operant conditioning: Schedules of reinforcement7:49
Operant conditioning: Innate vs learned behaviors ✓ Check-ins9:25
Operant conditioning: Escape and avoidance learning ✓ Check-ins2:20
Observational learning: Bobo doll experiment and social cognitive theory ✓ Check-ins9:46- Long term potentiation and synaptic plasticity ✓ Check-ins2:37
Non associative learning ✓ Check-ins3:59
Biological constraints on learning ✓ Check-ins10:36
Theories of attitude and behavior change
- Components of attitudes ✓ Check-ins4:59
- Attitude influences behavior ✓ Check-ins10:04
- Behavior influences attitude ✓ Check-ins5:57
Persuasion, attitude change, and the elaboration likelihood model ✓ Check-ins5:43
Reciprocal determinism ✓ Check-ins2:58
Locus of control, learned helplessness, and the tyranny of choice6:38
Self control ✓ Check-ins8:23
Unit 13: Foundation 8: Individuals and society
Self-identity
Self concept, self identity, and social identity ✓ Check-ins9:38
Self esteem, self efficacy, and locus of control ✓ Check-ins7:59
Overview of theories of development ✓ Check-ins7:45
Freud's psychosexual development ✓ Check-ins12:20
Erikson's psychosocial development ✓ Check-ins14:43
Vygotsky sociocultural development ✓ Check-ins9:56
Kohlberg moral development ✓ Check-ins9:53
Social influences ✓ Check-ins11:28
George Herbert Mead- The I and the Me5:28
Charles Cooley- Looking glass self ✓ Check-ins3:14
Perception, prejudice, and bias
Attribution Theory - Basic covariation ✓ Check-ins4:38
Attribution theory - Attribution error and culture ✓ Check-ins5:28
Stereotypes stereotype threat and self fulfilling prophecies ✓ Check-ins6:14
Emotion and cognition in prejudice ✓ Check-ins7:13
Prejudice and discrimination based on race, ethnicity, power, social class, and prestige ✓ Check-ins3:13
Stigma - Social and self ✓ Check-ins7:16
Social perception - Primacy recency ✓ Check-ins4:51
Social perception - The Halo Effect ✓ Check-ins5:15
Social perception - The Just World Hypothesis ✓ Check-ins6:33
Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism in group and out group ✓ Check-ins8:43
Attributing behavior to persons or situations
Social behavior
Social interactions
Status ✓ Check-ins2:47
Role strain and role conflict ✓ Check-ins2:18
Primary and secondary groups ✓ Check-ins3:40- Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism in group and out group ✓ Check-ins8:43
Dramaturgical approach ✓ Check-ins3:32
Impression management ✓ Check-ins4:08
Aggression ✓ Check-ins7:56
Harlow monkey experiments ✓ Check-ins3:23
Altruism ✓ Check-ins3:56
Discrimination individual vs institutional ✓ Check-ins4:17
Prejudice vs discrimination ✓ Check-ins2:28- Prejudice and discrimination based on race, ethnicity, power, social class, and prestige ✓ Check-ins3:13
Organizations and bureaucratization ✓ Check-ins4:59
Characteristics of an ideal bureaucracy ✓ Check-ins4:37
Social support ✓ Check-ins3:37
Self-presentation and interacting with others
Biological explanations of social behavior in animals
Unit 14: Foundation 9: Society and culture
Social structures
Macrosociology vs microsociology ✓ Check-ins3:38
Social institutions ✓ Check-ins3:27
Social institutions - education, family, and religion ✓ Check-ins6:31
Social institutions - government, economy, health and medicine ✓ Check-ins4:52
Functionalism ✓ Check-ins5:42
Conflict theory ✓ Check-ins4:38
Social constructionism ✓ Check-ins2:46
Symbolic interactionism ✓ Check-ins3:35
Rational choice-exchange theory ✓ Check-ins8:00
Social theories overview (part 1) ✓ Check-ins4:11
Social theories overview (part 2) ✓ Check-ins4:09
Relating social theories to medicine ✓ Check-ins9:30
Demographics
Demographic structure of society - age5:16
Demographic structure of society - race and ethnicity ✓ Check-ins5:47
Demographic structure of society - immigration ✓ Check-ins3:05
Demographic structure of society - sex, gender, and sexual orientation ✓ Check-ins7:41
Demographic structure of society overview ✓ Check-ins7:02
Urbanization ✓ Check-ins8:09
Population dynamics ✓ Check-ins9:01
Demographic transition ✓ Check-ins7:46
Globalization theories ✓ Check-ins5:47
Globalization- trade and transnational corporations ✓ Check-ins6:32
Social movements ✓ Check-ins7:35
Overview of demographics ✓ Check-ins10:38
Culture
Unit 15: Foundation 10: Social inequality
Social inequality
Overview of social inequality ✓ Check-ins3:57
Upward and downward mobility, meritocracy ✓ Check-ins6:36
Intergenerational and intragenerational mobility social mobility ✓ Check-ins3:32
Absolute and relative poverty ✓ Check-ins7:30
Social reproduction ✓ Check-ins5:12
Social exclusion (segregation and social isolation) ✓ Check-ins6:20
Environmental justice ✓ Check-ins4:33
Residential segregation ✓ Check-ins6:28
Global inequality ✓ Check-ins6:00- Prejudice and discrimination based on race, ethnicity, power, social class, and prestige ✓ Check-ins3:13
Health and healthcare disparities in the US ✓ Check-ins4:01
Intersectionality ✓ Check-ins3:30
Class consciousness and false consciousness ✓ Check-ins4:18
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