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Behavioral Endocrinology Flashcards

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scientific study of the interaction between hormones and behavior

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behavioral endocrinology

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what are two groups of behavioral endocrinology

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interdisciplinary and comparative

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3
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is there a connection between anabolic steroids and athletic performance

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yes

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what is an action carried out by effectors under control of the nervous system in response to a stimulus

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behavior

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5
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what is the coordinated responses of whole living organisms to internal and or external stimuli

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behavior

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what are tibergen’s four questions of behavior

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mechanism
ontogeny
adaptation
phylogeny

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7
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immediate causation

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mechanism

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8
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development is

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ontogeny

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adaptive function is

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adaptation

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evolution is

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phylogeny

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11
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does science prove a hypothesis

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no

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12
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cause correlation equal causation

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no

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13
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chemical messengers produced and released by endocrine glands

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hormone

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14
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do hormones cause behaviors to happen

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no

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15
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behavioral endocrinology is a scientific what

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discipline

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what are the methods of behavioral endocrinology

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removal
replacement
correlation

17
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hormonally dependent behavior should disappear when the source of the hormone is removed

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removal

18
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hormonally dependent behavior should be restored with addition of the hormone

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replacement

19
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appearance of hormonally dependent behavior should be covariant with hormone concentration

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correlation

20
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examples of removal and replacement experiments

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ablataion
lesion
gonadectomy
thyroidectomy

21
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examples of bioassays

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behavioral or physiological

22
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examples of immunocytochemistry

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use antibodies to determine sites of hormones in the body

23
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examples of blot tests

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southern
western
norther

24
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what is in situ hybridization

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radio labeled DNA probe added to fixed tissue to hybridize with mRNA

25
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what is direct cellular stimulation and recording

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single cell or multiple cell recordings

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what are examples of brain imaging

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MRI
fMRI
PET
CT scans

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what are genetic manipulations

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knockouts and transgenic animals

28
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what are gene arrays

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they demonstrate differential gene expression

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