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Can someone clarify if I nailed the difference down?

Hawthorne Effect is when behavior changes just out of awareness that you are being watched/observed

Impression Management is when you want to appear like something specific to people, so you work on how you are going to appear in the back stage, then in the front stage you act as that trait or whatever

Social Desirability Bias is the tendency to give socially acceptable answers instead of what you really believe when filling out surveys/questionnaires:

Social Facilitation is when the presence of others improves your performance on easy/well rehearsed tasks but damages it on hard/unfamiliar tasks

Demand Characteristics is when a participant in a study picks up on cues about what the experiment is actually testing or what result the researcher is hoping for, and then changes their behavior to match (or sometimes deliberately contradict) that perceived hypothesis

and an example to demonstrate each one:

- Hawthorne: "I noticed these fine ass girls looking at me and I found myself smiling more, standing taller, speaking with a deeper voice, and walking slower without really planning it"

- Impression Management: "I'm going on a date with this fine ass girl tomorrow, so I'm going to dress really nice and wear my linen pants and some fresh ass cologne so she thinks I'm sexy"

- Social Desirability Bias: "this survey I'm filling out just asked me for my opinion on fat people, I don't really like fat people, but I don't want to get cancelled or seen as rude, so I'm gonna write that I think they are nice and cool"

- Social Facilitation: "Bro I'm just amazing at basketball, I've been playing it for my whole life, and when a crowd watches me, I dribble even better and score more 3s. However, I'm not the best at Football, and when people watch me play, I tend to miss more shots."

- Demand Characteristics: "I'm participating in a study and all these questions the researcher is making me answer are about how stressed I feel after drinking coffee, I feel like the researcher is testing if caffeine causes stress, I'm gonna rate my stress higher now because I think that's what he wants to see"

Thanks in advance :)

For context, I've been taking a massive interest in hair loss medications and skincare pharmaceuticals, and the amount of things I see overlap with what I've learned when studying for the MCAT is insanely satisfying.

To give an example, let me talk about Minoxidil,

Minoxidil gets converted to its ACTIVE FORM Minoxidil Sulfate via sulfoTRANSFERASE ENZYMES in the hair follicles when applied topically.

Hence why in people that don't have enough sulfoTRANSFERASE ENZYMES on their scalp, less minoxidil will be converted to its active form, and it will not work for them (fun fact, topical minoxidil only works for around 40% of people)

Or to give another example, let's mention Tazarotene

Tazarotene gets rapidly metabolized via ESTERASE enzymes, to its active form tazarotenIC ACID which is a selective AGONIST for INTRACELLULAR Retinoic acid RECEPTORS (RAR-beta and RAR-gamma), therefore functioning as a NUCLEAR HORMONE RECEPTOR LIGAND/TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR

maybe I just sound stupid geeking over this, but the amount of doors this knowledge opens up for you is crazy, and I can't wait to learn and apply more of this knowledge in the future.

The sciences we are learning are extremely applicable to several fields, and contrary to popular belief, they are not just useless things that you will never see again after taking the exam.

Can someone give me a solid symmetry breaker between sensory adaptation and habituation?

I keep seeing overlapping definitions and contradicting examples online everywhere and it's killing me, is this a valid distinction?

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Thank you in advance.

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Hey guys, I just took my first ever full length, and I chose to do the first one from Uearth, I test in about 42 days and this score is lowkey concerning me, does anyone know how Uearth's FLs compare to AAMC? I can't seem to find any helpful information online regarding this so I'd appreciate if anyone with experience could let me know.

Thank you!

TLDR: I test in 42 days, just did my first Uearth FL, want to know where I stand because the score is concerning me, I am aiming for 515+ on the real thing.

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I've been doing Uworld pretty consistently (about 59Q's a day) for about 2 and a half weeks now, my b/b score has gone up like 10%, but I'm genuinely worried, is it supposed to be this difficult? I just did a section bank today and got a 69%, which is 4% above the listed average, but I still don't know if I'm behind or what. I test on the 12th of september, and I'd really appreciate if anyone can let me know where I stand with this.

TLDR: B/B section on uworld, i got a 69%, am i dumb or is it supposed to be this difficult? is my score decent?

Hey guys,

Taking a trip back home soon and want to make the most of the flight time, I am still very much in study mode, this isn't a vacation. I'll have solid WiFi and study time once I land, but I want to stay productive in the air too.

Anki is sorted since it works offline, but I'm looking for a good way to practice CARS on the plane. Anyone know of a resource I can use without internet access?

Also open to movie recommendations for when my brain needs a break lol (I prefer horror/mystery).

TLDR: long flight, want to practice CARS offline, any recommendations?