An outdated approach claiming that behavior and personality were based on the sizes of various regions of the skull surface was called:
a. magnetic resonance imaging.
b. alchemy.
c. phrenology.
d. humorism.
Answer: C
Rationale: : Its practitioners were correct in postulating that different psychological functions were localized in specific regions of the brain, but it turns out that the shape of the skull has little, if anything, to do with personality.
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