The Skeletal Muscle Shortens During Concentric, Isotonic Contraction

question 172

True/False

The skeletal muscle shortens during concentric, isotonic contraction.

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CS

In the context of classical conditioning, CS stands for Conditioned Stimulus, which is a previously neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response.

Second-order Conditioning

This is a process in which a stimulus that's already linked to a response becomes associated with another, new stimulus, creating a second conditioned stimulus.

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the process by which a previously reinforced behavior decreases in frequency and eventually ceases, often because the reinforcement is no longer provided.