PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Fetus, Social Constructionism, Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
10 Jan 2016
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Male testes secrete mullerian inhibiting hormone to shrink female organ development and secrete androgen for male sex hormones. Androgen encourages the growth of external genitals > leads to penis. Ovaries make estrogen female sex hormones. formation. In the first six weeks after conception, males and females differ in their chromosomes. Same two sets of ducts develop into a female reproductive system in females and a male reproductive system in males. Internal reproductive system develops prior to the external genitals. An inter-sexed individual has genitals that are not clearly female or clearly male. These people are about 2% of the population (atypical prenatal development) Congenital adrenal hyperplasia: condition where genetic females receive as much androgen as males do during pre-natal development. Androgen insensitivity syndrome: a condition in which genetic males (xy) produces normal amounts of androgen but a genetic condition makes their bodies not respond to androgen.
