Life (Sciences Communication) Skills
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Empathy
100
Compared to sitting, walking inside or outside increases this.
What is creativity (creative thinking)?
100
This disease can lead to epilepsy if left untreated.
What is syphilis?
100

Something is wrong with the following sentence: At the beginning of the fall of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall was demolished and statues of communist leaders destroyed.

What is passive voice?
100
When stories move you to a different world/place/perspective.
What is narrative transport?
200
These are peer-reviewed journals and articles.
What are secondary sources?
200
Following public outcry concerning the Tuskegee syphilis study, researchers now have to receive this from participants before conducting research on humans. 
What is informed consent?
200

Something is wrong with the following sentence: Before running down the hill she turned around and shouted "Don't steal any of my fries!"

What is punctuation?
200

These folks are high in Machiavellian tendencies. 

Who are trolls?
300

Rocky's speech touched hearts and minds(?) because he included these 4 features. 

What are the 4 Cs?
300
The laws that mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the Southern United States.
What are/is Jim Crow?
300

Something is wrong with this sentence: In order to understand kids, it helps to revert back to your mindset as a 9-year-old.

What is wordiness/redundancies?
300
Humans have been creating and gaining empathy through these for millennia. 
What are stories?
400

Communication is only successful when you think about these people first.

What is your audience (readers)?
400
This movement seeks to improve the "genetic quality" of the human population, often trying to use scientific methods to prove and protect the superiority of one particular race/ethnicity/group.
What is eugenics?
400
Making an outline from the first sentences of each paragraph in your essay will tell you if you have good ones of these.
What are topic sentences?
400

The parts of the brain responsible for reacting to others' actions. 

What are mirror neurons?
500
Sometimes no communication is better than this.
What is bad communication?
500
This practice was sometimes referred to as "benevolent deception."
What is doctors withholding information or lying to patients?
500
Rather than using a journalistic pyramid structure in your essays, you want to organize your paragraphs/points so that they do this.
What is build on each other?
500
This develops around age 5 in humans, allowing us to start considering things from the perspective of others.
What is theory of the mind?
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