PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3-4: Paramesonephric Duct, Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Genital Tubercle

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3480
• Professor: Noreen Stuckless

Document Summary

Gender typing: how children acquire their knowledge about gender and how they develop their gender-related personality characteristics, preferences, skills, behaviours and self-concepts. Children at a young age, including infants can recognize the differences between women and men. Infancy: period between birth and 18 months of life. The male and female embryos are identical until 6 weeks following conception. Mullerian ducts female internal reproductive organs, wolffian ducts male internal reproductive organs. Gonads external reproductive organs in both [default is female, unless a message is received from the y chromosome to make a male instead] Testes secrete two hormones: mullerian inhibiting hormone [inhibits mullerian duct development] and androgen allows for the growth of the wolffian ducts and external male genitilia. The female version of androgen is estrogen, which is believed to not play an important role in female reproductive system development. Genital tubercle penis in males and clitoris in females.