NEUROSCIENCE EXAM 2 VAN MILLER Q&A

NEUROSCIENCE EXAM 2 VAN MILLER
Q&A
What impairs spatial ability in males? - Answer-Low testosterone

What do female-to-male transsexuals show after taking testosterone? - Answer-
Spatial improvement and loss of verbal fluency

What part of the brain do males use in verbal tasks? - Answer-Left hemisphere

What part of the brain do females use in verbal tasks? - Answer-Both temporal areas

What part of the brain do males use in spatial tasks? - Answer-Cortical surface in
parietal lobe

What part of the brain do females use in spatial tasks? - Answer-Frontal area

What is the gender difference in talking? - Answer-Girls talk a lot and boys talk
minimally

What is the gender difference in conversation style? - Answer-Girls talk face to face
and boys talk shoulder to shoulder

What is the gender difference in conversation content? - Answer-Girls talk about
relationships and boys talk about objects and activities

What is the gender difference in touching? - Answer-Girls are nurturing and boys are
rough

What is the gender difference in power words? - Answer-Girls want to be loveable
and boys want to have fairness, loyalty, honorable, and respect

What is the gender difference in badges of friendship? - Answer-Girl shares
confidences and boys share activites

What is the gender difference in crying? - Answer-Girls view as release and signal
for support and boys view as weakness and humiliation

What is the gender difference in processing feelings? - Answer-Girls use cortex with
more complex with language and boys use limbic system and are less complex and
simpler

What is the gender difference in risky behavior? - Answer-Girls believe it is scary,
stupid, and lowers status and boys believe it is fun and increase status

What is the gender difference in sexual arousal? - Answer-Girls have cortex
dominance and boys have limbic system dominance

, What is the gender difference in teasing? - Answer-Girls consider it a veiled threat
and boys consider it a playful way to connect

What is the gender difference in discipline? - Answer-Girls affiliate with how they feel
and boys want clear rules and consquences

What is the gender difference in reading? - Answer-Girls like fiction and relationships
and boys like facts and action

What is the system that uses our behavior to keep things balanced? - Answer-
Homeostatic system

What is the systems that are the main homeostatic mechanisms? - Answer-Negative
feedback systems

What type of thirst is stimulated by low extracellular/intravascular volume? - Answer-
Hypovolemic thirst

What is a female in if she is sexually receptive? - Answer-Estrus

Women are more likely to initiate sex when? - Answer-At ovulation

What is necessary for male copulation? - Answer-Androgens (does not apply to
human males)

What are the phases of sex in both men and women? - Answer-Excitement phase
(arousal), in plateau (arousal levels off), orgasm, and resolution (arousal falls and
body returns to normal)

What is released during ejaculation and promote bonding? - Answer-Oxytocin

Male orgasms primarily activate what part of the brain? - Answer-Ventral tegmental
area (VTA)

Female orgasms primarily activate what part of the brain? - Answer-Deep cerebellar
nuclei, inhibition of orbitofrontal cortex

What part of the brain is involved in sex, smell, aggression, and emotions? - Answer-
Medial amygdala (in the temporal lobe)

What part of the brain is important for males? - Answer-Sexually dimorphic nucleus

What part of the brain is important for females? - Answer-Ventromedial
hypothalamus

What gene is responsible for the development of testes? - Answer-SRY gene

What biological determination of gender occurs prenatally or shortly after birth that
affect structure and are life long? - Answer-Organizing effects