Psychology - Sociology of Education and Government - MCAT Practice Questions

The unwritten, unofficial, and often unintended lessons, values, and perspectives that students learn in school are referred to as the:

A. Formal Curriculum
B. Hidden Curriculum
C. Standardized Curriculum
D. Vocational Curriculum

The weakening of social and political power of religious organizations as religious involvement declines is known as:

A. Liberalization
B. Fundamentalism
C. Secularization
D. Denomination

A form of government in which power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system is a:

A. Monarchy
B. Oligarchy
C. Democracy
D. Theocracy

A form of government advocating class warfare, leading to public ownership of property and payment based on abilities and needs is:

A. Socialism
B. Capitalism
C. Communism
D. Fascism

A form of government ruled by a king, queen, or emperor is a:

A. Republic
B. Dictatorship
C. Monarchy
D. Anarchy

An economic system based on private ownership of production means, operating for profit, is:

A. Socialism
B. Communism
C. Mercantilism
D. Capitalism

The process of defining and treating conditions as medical issues, leading to medical intervention, is called:

A. Healthification
B. Normalization
C. Medicalization
D. Biologizing

Actions taken by individuals who perceive themselves as ill, aiming for recovery, are described as:

A. Illness seeking behavior
B. Sick-role Behavior
C. Hypochondria
D. Secondary deviation

The branch of epidemiology studying the impact of social structures on health outcomes is:

A. Clinical Epidemiology
B. Molecular Epidemiology
C. Social Epidemiology
D. Population Health

Treating a person or animal as an object or thing is defined as:

A. Subjectification
B. Objectification
C. Dehumanization
D. Abstraction