MCAT KING Psych/Soc Companion Course

The MCAT KING Psych/Soc Companion Course is an 18-lesson, AAMC-aligned video curriculum designed to help students systematically master the Psychological, Social, and Biological Foundations of Behavior section of the MCAT. Rather than asking students to work through hundreds of videos without a clear sequence, this course organizes Khan Academy’s freely available MCAT educational material into a structured progression that follows the AAMC content framework from Foundational Concept 6 through Foundational Concept 10.

Students begin with sensation, perception, consciousness, memory, cognition, emotion, and stress; then move into the biological and psychological bases of behavior, learning, conditioning, personality, motivation, psychological disorders, social processes, identity, attribution, group behavior, sociology, demographics, culture, social inequality, and health disparities. Each lesson includes an ordered set of curated Khan Academy videos, a focused list of high-yield MCAT terms and concepts, and guidance for connecting the material to MCAT-style reasoning and practice.

This course is intended to serve as a companion to MCAT KING’s main MCAT curriculum. Students should use the videos to build or reinforce content knowledge, take concise notes on the listed key terms, and then apply the material through MCAT KING review and passage-based practice. Because the MCAT Psych/Soc section tests both content knowledge and the ability to interpret research, data, behavior, and social phenomena in passages, students should focus on understanding relationships between concepts rather than memorizing definitions in isolation.

Coverage is organized around the AAMC’s Psychological, Social, and Biological Foundations of Behavior blueprint, including Foundational Concepts 6–10. The AAMC currently describes the section as approximately 65% introductory psychology, 30% introductory sociology, and 5% introductory biology, with Foundational Concepts 6–10 contributing approximately 25%, 35%, 20%, 15%, and 5%, respectively.

Content Attribution: This companion course curates and organizes freely available Khan Academy MCAT educational resources and links students to the original material. Khan Academy and AAMC are the original sources of the linked educational resources. MCAT KING is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Khan Academy or AAMC. Third-party videos should be embedded or linked only as permitted by the source platform and should not be downloaded or re-hosted without permission.