Behavioral Endocrinology Flashcards
scientific study of the interaction between hormones and behavior
behavioral endocrinology
what are two groups of behavioral endocrinology
interdisciplinary and comparative
is there a connection between anabolic steroids and athletic performance
yes
what is an action carried out by effectors under control of the nervous system in response to a stimulus
behavior
what is the coordinated responses of whole living organisms to internal and or external stimuli
behavior
what are tibergen’s four questions of behavior
mechanism
ontogeny
adaptation
phylogeny
immediate causation
mechanism
development is
ontogeny
adaptive function is
adaptation
evolution is
phylogeny
does science prove a hypothesis
no
cause correlation equal causation
no
chemical messengers produced and released by endocrine glands
hormone
do hormones cause behaviors to happen
no
behavioral endocrinology is a scientific what
discipline
what are the methods of behavioral endocrinology
removal
replacement
correlation
hormonally dependent behavior should disappear when the source of the hormone is removed
removal
hormonally dependent behavior should be restored with addition of the hormone
replacement
appearance of hormonally dependent behavior should be covariant with hormone concentration
correlation
examples of removal and replacement experiments
ablataion
lesion
gonadectomy
thyroidectomy
examples of bioassays
behavioral or physiological
examples of immunocytochemistry
use antibodies to determine sites of hormones in the body
examples of blot tests
southern
western
norther
what is in situ hybridization
radio labeled DNA probe added to fixed tissue to hybridize with mRNA
