PSYC 3410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Knockout Mouse, Tropic Hormone, Fallopian Tube

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3410
• Professor: Elena Choleris

Document Summary

Men-are-men-and-women-are-women assumption the tendency to think about femaleness and maleness as discrete, mutually exclusive, opposite categories. Females have female sex hormones that give them female bodies and make them do female things, and that males have male sex hormones that give them male bodies and make them do opposite male things. Endocrine glands organs who"s primary function appears to be the release of hormones (stomach, liver, intestine and body fat also releases hormones into general circulation; a part of the endocrine system) Exocrine glands release their chemicals into ducts, which carry them to their targets, mostly on the surface of the body (e. g. sweat glands) Endocrine glands release their chemicals, which are called hormones, directly into the circulatory system (ductless glands) Hormone travels via the circulatory system until it reaches the targets on which is normally exerts its effect. Male testes and the female ovaries whos primary function is the production of sperm cells and ova.