quiz #2
Cards (15)
- Female: Mulleria Ducts ; Male: Wolffian Ducts
- Luteinizing Hormone (LH)- In mid-cycle, triggers ovulation, where the follicle releases the ovum.
- Oxytocin- A pituitary hormone, plays a crucial role in reproductive behavior. It stimulates uterine contractions during childbirth.
- Sexual Variation- Refers to sexual desires and behaviors or what is considered to be the normal range and what is unusual or atypical it varies between cultures and from one period to another.
- Sexual Orientation- It is about who you're attracted to and who you feel drawn to romantically, emotionally, and sexually.
- Sex Differences- the biological differences between males and females.
- Gender Differences- The differences that result from people’s thinking about themselves as male or female.
- Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia- Is overdevelopment of the adrenal glands from the birth.
- Botulinum Toxin (BOTOX)- Blocks transmission at synapses and nerve–muscle junctions.
- Panic Atttack- had sudden intense arousal of the sympathetic nervous system without knowing the reason, when people gasp for breath, worry that they are suffocating, and experience great anxiety.
- James Lange Theory- proposal that an event first provokes the autonomic arousal and skeletal responses and that the feeling aspect of emotion is the perception of those responses.
- Limbic System- these forebrain areas surrounding the thalamus has been regarded as critical for emotion.
- Moro Reflex- a reaction when a sudden loud noise causes a newborn to arch the back, briefly extend the arms and legs, and cry.
- Startle Reflex Pathway- Auditory information goes first to the cochlear nucleus in the medulla then directly to an area in the pons that commands tensing the muscles, especially the neck muscles. Information reaches the pons within 3 to 8 ms after a loud noise, and the full startle reflex occurs in less than two-tenths of a second.
- Benzodiazepins- are a class of depressant drugs and are prescribed to treat conditions such as anxiety disorders, insomnia and seizures.