New and Updated MCAT P/S Content Document (from MCATalyst)
Been working the last few months to make an updated document that I've used to collect the terms that many of the awesome/free resources (and MCAT reaction threads) use that seem to be relevant for the MCAT and combed through them to eliminate things that have pretty much evidence to be showing up on the exam (I'm looking at you, obscure nervous system anatomy) and then focused on making sure to include many new terms that may be missing from Pankow/300 Page document, as well as extrapolating a few new terms that probably won't show up but since they're on related topics to what does, and the MCAT does have a hidden list of concepts they test on, I felt comfortable adding a few things in.
You can find it in a link in the description, Reddit doesn't allow google doc links so you can just go through my website and download it for free or use the Google Doc for free.
Massive Thanks: HUGE thank you to the many resources that have been prevalent in this community for a long time (Khan and the 300 page document, Pankow, most notably.. Couldn't have made this without them.
Organization of Pankow vs Document: there's going to be stuff you find in the Pankow deck that isn't on my document and vice versa. Most of my reasoning for that is listed above, but also keep in mind that the AAMC updated their outline and so I ended up organizing my document to align with that rather than what was available when Pankow was there. I'm also not as funny as Pankow so my apologies on that.
Examples: I love giving people examples of terms, I find that it significantly makes it easier to understand things, which is why my document has a ton of examples of terms that are listed.
Delineations between similar terms: for a lot of the terms that are similar (i.e. Actor-Observer Bias, Fundamental Attribution Error, Self-Serving Bias, and Looking-Glass-Self) I made sure to include explanations and examples of how they're different so they're easier to understand and catch differences for the questions that put all of them close together.
Memory Quick Tip: PLEASE get comfortable putting these terms into your own words by finding examples of things. I'm thinking of making a document that removes my examples to allow you to create your own, because knowing the definition is great, but the MCAT never tests on definitions, really, for P/S. Examples and terms, especially similar ones!
A note on the complicated development theories: I tried to simplify these as much as I could, since for the most part, these are not commonly asked about, but highly recommend trying to personalize those theories (like Kohlberg, Erikson, etc.)
That's all! Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions, there's a way to suggest edits or new terms in the document if you find any mistakes.