PSYC 342 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cholecystokinin, Sex Steroid, Corpus Luteum
11 Mar 2013
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Male reproductive behaviour: testosterone alone is not determining sexual behaviour, in castrated rats, copulatory behaviour is predicted by dopamine rather than testosterone. Dopamine experimented in mice will use reward as a classical conditioning (via dopamine) to en- gage in copulating behaviour. The individual variation is preserved: behaviour is different amongst different groups of animals and it may not all be attributed to testos- terone (condition, reward, another hormone, etc. ). It is not purely hormonal: the hormone alone does not cause the behaviour but rather it helps facilitate a potential behaviour. Beach: psychobiologist from uc berkeley who wrote sexual attractivity, proceptivity, and receptivity in. Female mammals : proposed three components to divide female behaviour: attractivity, proceptivity and receptivity. Estrus phase: when the female in in heat". Immediately precedes ovulation during which the female exhibits a sexually receptive behaviour to mating. Behaviour may be signaled by visible physiologic changes.
