Parental Behavior Jeopardy Template

Maternal Behavior of Rodents	Parturition	Hormonal Control of Maternal Behavior	Neural Control of Maternal Behavior	Neural Control of Paternal Behavior
100 False True or false: As infants, rats and mice have a sharp vision that improves as they age.	100 Prenatal hormones What is the general term used for hormones that stimulate parturition?	100 Progesterone What hormone facilitates nest building behavior, and is considered the principal hormone of pregnancy?	100 Sensitization What do you call the physiological process by which pups and their odors attract female rats?	100 Oxytocin What hormone is activated upon synchronous, coordinated emotional behavior between father and infant in humans?
200 Nests What do female rats and mice build during gestation?	200 10th day Lactating rats produce 48 grams of milk on which day of lactation?	200 True True or false: Maternal behavior is not controlled by the organizational and activational effects of sex hormones.	200 The presence of her pups The Ventral Tegmental —> Nucleus Accumbens System is involved in motivation and reinforcement among mother rats. What reinforces lactating females?	200 Prolactin What hormone is activated when cries of infants are heard by a father in humans?
300 Forebrain In which area in the brain is the medial preoptic area found?	300 Anogenital region After delivering their offspring, what region on their pups do female rats lick?	300 Oxytocin What hormone facilitates the formation of a bond between the mother rat and her offspring?	300 Nest building, pup care What abilities of a mother rat are hindered if there are lesions in the medial preoptic area?	300 Medial preoptic area What specific part of the preoptic area is activated when a father is exposed to his pup?
400 Help pups release urine and feces Give one way by which mother rats/mice attend to their pups’ needs.	400 Placenta and umbilical cord What does the female rat eat up after delivering her offspring?	400 Ovariectomy What do you call the surgical removal of one or both ovaries?	400 The inhibition of circuits responsible for aversion to odor of pups The activation of circuits responsible for caring for pups What are the 2 forms of sensitization to pups that the Medial Preoptic Area is responsible for?	400 Prairie voles are monogamous and help care for their offspring; meadow voles are polygamous and leave the female after mating. Differentiate male prairie voles and male meadow voles.
500 Poikilothermous Rats and mice are cold-blooded. What is the scientific term for “cold-blooded”?	500 Consume water in the urine of her pups What do lactating rats do to recycle 2/3 of the water they give through milk?	500 Estradiol After pregnancy, which hormone declines in amount?	500 Medial amygdala Neurons in the __ send axons to the anterior hypothalamus to inhibit circuits responsible for the aversion to the odor of pups.	500 Ventral pallidum What region of the basal ganglia is involved in control of motivated behaviors?

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