PSY 3121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sex Steroid, Physical Attractiveness, Tom Hiddleston
9 Apr 2018
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Back to the beginning: xx and xy and gonadal hormones. Fetuses are exposed to gonadal hormones during development. Males: androgen linked to hormones, like testosterone, to stimulate sex organ development. Females: not exposed to such high levels of testosterone. Turner"s syndrome: girls who are born with one x rather than xx chromosomes. Have the external genetalia of a girl, but often infertile (don"t have the internal genetalia) Often raised as female and given estrogen hormones to develop a female body. At birth, the child will be assigned a male or a female gender, but the child usually then grows up with heterosexual tendencies. Limits your body"s ability to make hormones. A body cannot produce enough cortisol, which is usually in response to low glucose levels. Females born with cah have the internal reproductive organs of a female but the external organs of a male.
