Last revised: 5/3/06

HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR (PSYC 4092/5092)

Spring 2006

Class: Tuesday, Thursday 9:30— 10:45 am

Room: HUMN 190

Final Exam: Saturday, May 6, 7:30-10 am, HUMN 190

Instructor: Bob Spencer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

Office: Muenzinger D465B

Phone: 303-492-0854

Office Hours: Tues 11am-noon, Wed 2-3 pm

e-mail: robert.spencer@colorado.edu

Course Syllabus

Course Objectives

Course Calendar/Outline

Behavioral Endocrinology Research Paper (Outline due Thurs April 6; Paper due Tuesday May 2)

More details concerning the research paper

Link to First Gold Search via University of Colorado Library Web-site (Chinook)

Select "First Search Gold and Silver" from the Access Data Bases List. Proceed to First Search Gold. Once in Search First Gold you will need to select a Data Base that you would like to search. I recommend either Medline, ArticleFirst and/or ECO.

First Search Gold is a Web based search engine that allows you to enter key terms and search data bases that index scientific journal articles for matches to those key terms. Often you can get a copy of the abstract for the scientific paper displayed within your Internet Browser, and sometimes you can download a copy of the entire article. Other times, all you will get is the citation for the article (i.e. authors, title, journal, volume, page numbers, etc), and then you will have to go to the library to access the article (if our library doesn't carry the Journal, you can use Zap to request a free copy of the journal article).

Citation and Reference List information

The following web sites provide useful information for using American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual guidelines for citing papers in your text and formatting a Reference List.

http://www.psychwww.com/resource/apacrib.htm

This site lists links to several other web-sites that summarize/highlight the APA Publication Manual guidelines

http://www.wooster.edu/psychology/apa-crib.html

APA Publication Manual Crib Sheet: Go to "Reference Formats" section to see how to cite references "In-text", and how to format the Reference List

http://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/index.cfm?doc_id=796

APA Style Essentials: Section V (Text Citations), Section VII (References)

Course Grading

Course Resources

Unit 1

Lecture Handouts

Check out this web-site for a good introduction to the location and function of the different endocrine glands: www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html [select "Images", and then "Endocrine Systems"]

Also: http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/H/Hormones.html

Handout #4: Survey of Hormones

Check out this nice color diagram of the anterior pituitary and portal blood system

Handout #5: Mucking with the HPG axis

Diagram of the HPG axis

Handout #6: Biochemistry of Hormones

Diagram of steroid synthesis pathways

Diagram of cortisol receptor (AKA glucocorticoid receptor) action

Handout #7: Sexual Dimorphism

One person's prediction of the genes that will be found on the human Y chromosome

HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR (PSYC 4092/5092)

Check out this web-site for a good introduction to the location and function of the different endocrine glands: www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html [select "Images", and then "Endocrine Systems"]

Also: http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/H/Hormones.html

Handout #9: Sexual Anomalies continued

Unit 2

Unit 3