Reproductive Behaviors Flashcards
An individuals sexual orientation (heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual) IS easy to determine?
True or false
False
Is not always easy to determine because factors such as sexual attraction, sexual behavior, emotional attachments, and self identity may not always “match”
Androgynous
A person who embodies both masculine and feminine traits and behaviors
Research that these individuals are happier and better adjusted than “masculine” or “feminine” individuals
What did the case of David Reimer show?
This experiment showed that the theory that a boy could be turned into a girl by “nurture” was a huge failure
Intersex
An individual whose sexual anatomy is intermediate between typical males and females
True hermaphrodite
Individual with both ovarian and testicular tissue
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
CAH
The condition CAH masculinizes genetically female individuals
Androgen insensitivity syndrome
AIS
AIS feminizes genetically male individuals (tissues do not respond to androgens )
What happens to men with 5-alpha reductase deficiency?
Balls at 12
Men appear more female at birth but develop male sexual characteristics during puberty, including the production of sperm in the testes
Turners syndrome
XO
Sexually infantile sterile female
specific physical/facial abnormalities
Cardiovascular/ kidney disorders
Triple X
XXX
sterile female with normal appearance
Klinefelter’s syndrome
XXY
Male with reduced fertility and female-like breasts
May have small testes
May have learning disabilities
Super males
XYY
Very tall male, usually fertile
more learning/ social problems than XY males
Syndromes due to nondisjunction of sex chromosomes
Turners syndrome
Triple X
Klinefelter’s syndrome
Syndromes caused by fertilization by two sperm
Super males
