You Are Conducting an Experiment in Which You Are Trying

question 92

Multiple Choice

You are conducting an experiment in which you are trying to manipulate the immune response of rats by using the principles of classical conditioning. First for several days of an experiment, you give rats artificially sweetened water with an immune system-enhancing drug in it. You later remove the drug and notice that the immune systems of rats are boosted when they consume the sweetened water. In your experiment, what is the conditioned stimulus (CS) ?

• A)The sweetened water
• B)The drug
• C)The enhanced immune system functioning in response to the drug
• D)The enhanced immune system functioning in response to the sweetened water

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Definitions:

Z Lines

The boundaries in a striated muscle fiber that separate one sarcomere from the next, crucial for muscle contraction.

H Zone

The H Zone is a region within the sarcomere of a muscle fiber that appears lighter under a microscope and shortens during muscle contraction, it is found in the center of the A band.

Striated

A description of muscle tissue that appears striped or banded under a microscope, typical of skeletal and cardiac muscles.

Skeletal Muscle

A type of muscle that is attached to bones and is responsible for voluntary movements of the body.