Content + application videos like these are the best because we can see directly how what we just learned would be tested. It honestly helps me the most to learn this way :)
Omg had no idea you guys were siblings! I’ve been binge watching your videos for the past month and that just made me love you guys even more hahaha thank you for being such amazing tutors! Your guys’ flowchart method and teaching just works. Thank you❤️❤️ I test Sept 9 so I am trying to absorb all the knowledge I can from y’all haha
well the DNA test is still pending but our parents say we're brother and sister lol. I'm SO happy the flowchart method is working for you and that you're sponging up what we can give. Finish strong and let's crush Sept 9th!
This video was sooo great ! I want to highlight the moment when John asked what does equivocal mean, I naturally wanted to think equal also but he said "unequivocal means a good thing" and it is true, so equivocal is the opposite means uncertain and questionable. I admire how you BOTH think. Always impressed and inspired when I watch videos on the channel! Keep it up.
This is the best! Thank you both so much for this! Using alongside Mr Pankow deck, and I'm rocking and rolling the P/S section banks and AAMC FL's. (thank goodness because C/P is the bane of my existence, and having a few extra P/S points in the bank will help offset lol)
anyone looking in comments for other high yield stuff, know the 6 basic theories like symbolic interactionism, functionalism. They have a video on it. Thanks IFD
Not to be that guy but I believe the example you gave at 36:35 about the nickels and the dollar, would actually be called "Centuration" because the kid is so focused on the amount of nickels, he does not understand that a singular piece of paper is more/equal value. Centuration is also another key component of the preoperational stage. But thank you for this video, extremely helpful!
Thanks for all the great videos! I see that your chart of Piaget’s stages says that conservation is developed in the preoperational stage but other resources like UWorld say conservation is developed in the concrete operational stage. Is one more correct than the other or is it kinda a situation where it starts to develop in preoperational and finishes by concrete operational or something?
I think the distinction is that in the graphic in this video it says the MILESTONE is development of Conservation. Once in the Concrete stage, you can assume that children have ACHIEVED the milestone of Conservation. In the chart in the video it says that conservation is in process of DEVELOPING. Similar to how in sensorimotor you are DEVELOPING object permanence, but by Preoperational you have ACHIEVED the milestone of object permanence.
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Dude that cocaine question was ridiculously difficult. When I think of cocaine users i know they put cocaine in their blood stream. From there, ik it has to go through the BBB to get in their brain!? Idk the structure of cocaine, how am I supposed to know if it crosses the BBB or not? That’s INSANE of the AAMC to assume an undergrad student should have the mental fortitude to choose an answer other than B or D. A is way way way out of scope for me idk how I could choose that. You said yourself you don’t even learn that in med school. Also, when I take practice exams utilizing this “overthinking” risky logic, I get easy questions wrong. I guess the only way i can do better is to choose the easy answers and hope they don’t throw too many trick questions…
Agree it’s a difficult question! Answer choice A points to the biggest thing we should know about cocaine - it is a stimulant. Stimulants increase CNS activity, therefore increasing glucose metabolism. B is evidence that cocaine gets in the fetus, but there is a logical leap involved to say that it getting in the fetus means it is pharmacologically active in fetal brains. B isn’t necessarily wrong, but it is not as direct and clear as A. D is incorrect and I actually looked up why. As far as I can tell, internalization is basically endocytosis of a receptor and its ligand. Cocaine’s method of action is not by binding to the receptor itself, but rather by blocking reuptake of our own dopamine so it hangs out longer in the synapse and keeps producing its effects. I think D is a little complex for the MCAT, so I wouldn’t expect undergraduates to know that without having taken some upper level psych or neuro classes. However, I would expect them to know the logic behind A, and therefore choose it over something they aren’t sure about.
@@mash8349 I hate to say ALL for anything, but it’s prob safe to say for the MCAT’s purposes, stimulants increase cortical activity and therefore our brain’s need for glucose. I would think depressants have the opposite effect. The MCAT is all about that reasoning
@@InformingFutureDoctors this was a complicated question. Thank you for breaking it down! It's unfair, but what can you do. At least we now know what they're thinking
Yes pretty much! Piaget's theory is a little confusing because the boundaries between stages can get muddy if you think too hard about them. That's one of the critiques against it. But you are correct in stating that a hallmark of the Preoperational stage is centration while a hallmark of the Concrete Operational stage is conservation! Where it gets a little muddy is if you're trying to pinpoint EXACTLY when a child moves from stage to stage. For example, what if a child has an intense focus on themselves (centration), but they can pass the water conservation test? The MCAT won't test you on these gray areas but they exist!
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