FRHD 2100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Sigmund Freud, Oedipus Complex, Observational Learning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2100
• Professor: Robin Milhausen

Document Summary

List and describe syndromes which are abnormalities of sex chromosomes. Define gender identity, assigned sex, intersex, cisgender, gender binary, and hermaphrodite. Describe the ways gender roles influence sexual behaviour. Sexual differentiation is the process by which males and females develop distinct reproductive anatomy. The chromosomes from each parent combine to form 23 pairs. An ovum carries an x sex chromosome whereas sperm carries either an x or y chromosome. If a sperm with an x chromosome fertilize the ovum, the newly conceived embryo will develop normally as a female, with an xx sex chromosomal structure. At about three weeks, a primitive heart begins to drive blood through the embryonic bloodstream. At six weeks, it has a pair of sexually undifferentiated gonads, two sets of primitive duct structures called the millerian (female) ducts and the wolffian (male) ductsm and primitive external genitals whose sex cannot be visually distinguished.