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organizational hypothesis
organizational hypothesis The organizational hypothesis is the idea that gonadal hormones acting during early critical periods of development, such as the neonatal stage and puberty, permanently shape later behavior.
The organizational hypothesis is the idea that gonadal hormones acting during early critical periods of development, such as the neonatal stage and puberty, permanently shape later behavior. In this source, it refers specifically to the proposal that these early hormones organize later context fear learning in sex-specific ways, rather than hormones acting only in adulthood.