If You Continually Practice a Skill Involving Precise, Coordinated Movements

question 84

True/False

If you continually practice a skill involving precise, coordinated movements of the fingers, the areas associated with your fingers in the sensory and motor cortices will increase in size and/or function.

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Definitions:

Unconditioned Response

An automatic, innate reaction to a stimulus that does not depend on prior learning or conditioning.

Negative Punishment

A behavioral strategy involving the removal of a desirable stimulus following an undesirable behavior to decrease the likelihood of the behavior's recurrence.

Positive Punishment

A behavior modification technique that involves the addition of an unpleasant stimulus to decrease the likelihood of a behavior reoccurring.

Negative Reinforcement

A process in behavior modification by which the likelihood of a behavioral response increases by the removal of an unpleasant stimulus.