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9: Gender and Sexual Behaviour Flashcards

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What is a person’s sex?

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How they hormonally and genitally present, both internally and externally

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What is a person’s gender?

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Their social role and identity based on socially constructed norms, roles and relationships

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What is transgender?

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When a person’s gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth

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What does intersex mean?

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When a person presents as both male and female physically

Chromasomes can be XX or XY

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What is XX intersex?

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Where they have the chromasomes of a woman but the external genitals of a male. Caused by excess male hormones before birth

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What is XY intersex?

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Chromasomes of a man but the external genitals are incomplete or more femanine. Often malformed or absent testes and problems forming and using testoesterone

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What is the Y chromasome?

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The chromasome that dictates male development and makes someone present as male. Without this, we would all be female

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What is the sex determining region?

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An area found on the Y chromosome which activates the genes needed o develop the gonads and make testes

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How can colourblindness be sex linked?

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Red-green colourblindness is found on the X chromasome so the defect is more likely to affect men who do not have a back up X chromasome to replease the faulty gene

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What is Turner’s syndrome?

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People have a missing or altered second X chromasome meaning their overies don’t work propperly and they have reduced levels of progesterone

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What are the physical symptoms of Turner’s syndrome?

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Short, wide neck
Puffy hands
Weak bones
Hearing issues

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What is Klinefelter’s syndrome?

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Additional X chromasome (XXY) meaning people don#t make enough testoesterone or sperm. These issues can be helped using hormone therapy

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At which point does sex become differentiated in the foetus?

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After 2 months

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After 2 months, what happens if the foetus has a Y chromasome?

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The Wolffian duct develops into the male internal reproductive organs

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After 2 months, what happens if the foetus has no Y chromasome?

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The Mullerian duct develops into the female reproductive system

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What is the role of the hypothalamus in hormones?

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It releases gonadotropin hormones (GnRH) such as LH and FSH which is regulated by the pituitary gland

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What is the role of the pituitary gland in GnRH?

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It reglulates their release from the hypothalamus

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What do GnRH hormones do in females?

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Stimulate the production of estrogen

19
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What does LH do in men?

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Encourages testoesterone production

20
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What does FSH do in men?

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Matures sperm cells

21
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How is GnRH affected by melatonin and how is this linked to evolution?

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Lower melatonin (More light) increases GnRH so offspring born around this time have a higher rate of survival

22
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What are sex steroid hormones?

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Oesterogen, progesterone and testoesterone

23
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How do levels of testoesterone in males and females compare?

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Women have about 10% of the levels found in men

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What is the sexually dimorphic nucleus?

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An area of the brain that controlls behaviour, larger in men, half the size in gay men

25
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What is top-down arousal?

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Psychological factors

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What is bottom up arousal?

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Tactile factors

27
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What part of the nervous system controls erections?

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The parasympathetic system

28
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What is released by nerve endings when someone gets an erection?

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Acetylcholine
Vasoactive intestinal polypeptides
Nitric acid

29
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How does viagra affect the metabolic pathways of an erection?

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It interfears with nitric oxide so the arteries release even more

30
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What areas of the brain are affected by an orgasm?

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Decreased function in the left lateral orbitofrontal cortex which suggests behavioural disinhebition

31
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What is vasopressin and oxytocin?

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Hormones increasing pair bonding

32
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How are vasopressin and oxytocin linked to monogamy?

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They increase pair bonding so you get attatched to your partner. However, if you don’t have the receptors for it then the hormones have limited effects

33
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How does castration effect sexual behaviour?

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50% stop showing it
25% have a gradual decline
10% unaffected

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How does a woman’s ovulation affect their attraction?

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Women are more likely to initiate sex when they’re in their ovulatory phase so at their most fertile

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