PSY 3122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Chromosome Abnormality, Prenatal Development
1 Nov 2017
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What makes up gender? (gender is a social construction) (money, 19something) Biological factors: (6 factors that have an effect on how the body develops: chromosomal gender, gonadal gender, prenatal hormonal gender: role of testosterone; estrogen. Internal sexual organs: wolfian ducts (what developed: external genital appearance, pubertal hormonal gender: phase 2 differentiation. Disorders of sexual development: intersex (some aspect of the biological development that doesn"t fit with that sex typical biological development) individuals. Congenital: atypical prenatal development, chromosomal anomalies, turner"s syndrome (x, appear female, most identify as female, typically the changes regarding puberty for women are underdeveloped, tend to be smaller, sometimes identified as a problem, klinefelter"s syndrome (xxy) 5-alpha- reductase deficiency (x,y chromosomally male, but the testes do not descend: at birth = raised female. Internal and external do not match: at puberty= transitions to male, masculinization of external, testosterone working in a typical matter, typically testes that were undescended tend to descend, body masculinized, transition their gender identity.
