April 4 Twitter/FB answer

Gordon Allport did this. One story is that he had graduate students identify thousands of words from a dictionary that described personality traits. Then they winnowed the list down to a few central traits that seem to fully describe personalities.

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April 2 Twitter/FB answer

Generally drugs used to treat schizophrenia are antipsychotics, some of which act as antagonists at dopamine receptors (that is, they block the action of dopamine at neuron receptors.)

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April 1 Twitter/FB answer

A population bottleneck occurs when a population rapidly decreases (as a result of famine, disease, etc.) and the smaller population becomes vulnerable to genetic drift, thus reducing the genetic diversity in the population.

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March 28 Twitter/FB answer

Wilhelm I (Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig) of the House of Hohenzollern, King of Prussia after 1861, became the first German Emperor, from 1871 – 1888.

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March 24 Twitter/FB answer

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is the largest and strongest political faction in Nigeria. The two presidents elected during the Fourth Republic were members of the party, as is current President Goodluck Jonathon. The party holds large majorities in both houses of the legislature.

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March 18 Twitter/Facebook answer

The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848 ended the US-Mexican War. It enabled the US to purchase, at a reduced price, much of the current Western US, including California.

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March 16 Twitter/FB answer

The atomic number is equal to the number of protons in an atom.

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March 15 Twitter/FB answer

Carol Gilligan criticized Kohlberg’s work on moral reasoning, based on her contention that men and women have different typical styles of moral reasoning. Men are more likely to use justice as a framework for moral reasoning, while women are more likely to be concerned with maintaining and strengthening relationships.

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March 11 Twitter/FB answer

Johannes Kepler (1571 – 1630) was a German mathematician who proved that planetary orbits are elliptical, not circular.

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March 9 Twitter/FB answer

Hybridization occurs when two closely related species interbreed and produce progeny. The resulting offspring can have greater genetic variation than their parents, which allows hybrids to become new species. Most hybrids are infertile in some way, but sometimes a hybrid is fertile.

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