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Despite the popular view of his time, Franz Gall, an anatomist, asserted that the brain operated based on ____. Though his claim was actually correct, Gall was virtually dismissed because of his approach to understanding personality, known as ____.
 
  a. neural networks; ego analysis
  b. localization of function; ego analysis
  c. neural networks; phrenology
  d. localization of function; phrenology

Question 2

Slick's head has a bump on the back and in the right. Gaston has an indentation in his head on the front and in the right. When Antoinette feels their heads and notes these features, she concludes that Slick is very socially outgoing and that Gaston is very mathematically inclined. Antoinette most likely supports the principles ____.
 
  a. advocated by Paul Broca
  b. of phrenology
  c. established by lesion analysis in aphasia
  d. of separation between the what and where pathways



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Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
d

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
b



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