PSYC 3410 Lecture Notes - Anabolic Steroid, Sex Steroid, Anterior Pituitary
18 Mar 2013
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Mamawawa: men are men and women are women assumption: the tendency to think about femaleness and maleness as discrete, mutually exclusive, opposite categories this assumption seems right but it is fundamentally flawed. In thinking about hormones and sex : assumption is females have female sex hormones that give them female bodies and make them do female things. Hormones influence sex in two different ways: by influencing the development from conception to sexual maturity of the anatomical, physiological, and behavioral characteristics that distinguish females vs. males, by activating the reproduction-related behavior of sexually mature adults. Endocrine glands: are organs who"s primary function is to release hormones. Note: some other organs i. e. : stomach, liver, intestine and body fat also release hormones into general circulation and are therefore also part of the endocrine system. Glands: exocrine glands: (eg sweat glands) release chemicals into ducts which carry them to their targets.
