Why Are Skeletal Muscles Called Voluntary

question 125

Multiple Choice

Why are skeletal muscles called voluntary?

• A) These muscles maintain a constant rhythm of contraction.
• B) Their contractions can be consciously controlled.
• C) Only these muscles are stimulated to contract by the central nervous system.
• D) Contraction of specific muscles occurs to maintain body posture and body position.
• E) All of the answers are correct.

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Definitions:

Cumulative Relative Frequency

The accumulation of the previous relative frequencies up to a certain class or point, showing the proportion of observations below a particular value in a dataset.

Dispersion

A measure of the spread of a distribution or the variability of data points around a central value.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Percentile

A measure used in statistics to indicate the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations falls.