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This 3 page paper considers the theory that skull shape affects human intelligence and personality. The author also introduces the Gage syndrome, a collection of symptoms named after Phineas Gage. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Mankind has worked for centuries to understand the workings of the human brain and how those workings associate with our behavior and even
our personality and even our physical attributes. We now know that the structure of our brain and the functions of the various parts are essential to our understanding of
psychological function. Even such root aspects of behavior as intelligence are determined to a large degree by the cerebral configuration. In the past, however, people have jumped to
severely inaccurate assumptions about how our physical characteristics might somehow be indicative of our psychological function. One of the theories that was put
forth at one time was that the shape of the individual human head held clues as to how intelligent that person was or whether they might excel in one area
of study while doing poorly in another. That theory was originally posited by Franz Gall in the eighteenth century (Walker 9). Interestingly, he started formulating his theory while
still just a child (Walker 9). He observed that certain classmates who had a propensity for learning Latin also had protuberant eyes (Walker 9). In his later studies
he observed other students with similar characteristics and used those observations to propose that skull shape and even the presence of bumps in various places on the skull related to
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