Exam 10: Reproductive Behaviors

 Professor Eisenhower explains to her class that the steroid hormones (like androgens) produce effects by _____.

 Data gathered by studies such as the LeVay study suggest that ____.

 Many female mammals become very attentive after delivering their babies largely because of a sudden ____.

 During orgasm, dopamine has stimulated _____.

 "Female hormones" are referred to as ____.

 One way that estrogen increases sexual responsiveness is by ____.

 What would cause a genetic female mammal to develop an anatomical appearance resembling a male's?

 Two major classes of sex hormones are ____.

 One important difference between organizing effects and activating effects of hormones is that activating effects ____.

 A means of controlling sex offenders has involved reducing ____.

 What is one current recommendation for raising children who have intersex conditions?

 Give some examples of evolutionary interpretations of mating behavior.

 Which is not a way that steroids exert their effects?

 Which of the following is true of androgens and estrogens?

 If you inject a male rat with estrogen shortly after birth, it will ____.

 Catherine is studying the two categories of sex hormones: androgens and progesterones.

 What would cause a mammal to develop the anatomy of a male, regardless of its chromosomes?

 Larry is male. When he experiences sexual behavior, it is likely the result of an increase in _____ in the _____ of the hypothalamus.

 Organizing effects of hormones usually occur early in development.

 The interstitial nucleus 3 of the anterior hypothalamus is known to be more than ____.