PSY-3705 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Indecent Exposure, Aversion Therapy, Gardasil

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Psychology (A&S)
• Course: PSY-3705
• Professor: Smith Leslie

Document Summary

Set up an organization for the brain and body. Have prenatal causes on the brain and sexual development. Testosterone is the main differentiator in development (between male and female development) Connections in the brain cause memory and brain activity and neural connections. Cortex continues to grow and mature through birth. Spinal cord of the fetus is fully developed in the second trimester. Wolffian ducts create cowper"s gland, prostate, & ejaculatory gland. Plays a role in differentiation of male internal genitalia. Are the precursors to the male internal genitalia & sexual systems. Sexual differentiation occurs at 8-12 weeks (wolffian & mullerian ducts originally are undifferentiated but used in developing the differentiated genitalia) Xy chromosomes (y chromosome) code for tdf (testes determining factor) hormone. Tdf (testes determining factor) operates on the primordial testes to become true testes. Amh (antimullerian hormone) is secreted by sertoli cells. Wolffian ducts create prostate gland, epididymis, vas deferens, & seminal vesicles.