PSYCH 335 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Estradiol Benzoate, Tryptophan, Membrane Transport Protein
7 Sep 2016
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Bidirectional interaction: hormones can affect behavior, and behavior can in uence hormone concentrations. Eunuchs: men castrated before puberty employed to guard women at court. Castrati: church choir boys castrated to preserve higher voice. Arnold adolph berthold: published the rst formal experiment in behavioral endocrinology in. Other tissues secrete hormones such as: heart, gastrointestinal tract organs, placenta, kidneys, skin, adipose tissue. Examples of behavior: dormancy (seasonal or environmentally induced slowdown of metabolism, phototaxis (movement of an organism toward/away from light, sleeping, web spinning, v formation in birds, motor re exes (response from stimuli, laughing/crying. Not behavior: satiety (sensation of being full, sweating in response to increasing body temperature, physiological response that can most simply and usefully be explained by organ level process alone, cognitive processes, fighting infection, salivation. Down-regulation number of receptors decreases with increased exposure to hormone), are released in a pulsatile manner and effective amounts are small.
