ISSA Strength and Conditioning Test
Questions and Answers | Examination
Preparation Guide | Graded A+
‣ Type 2a . Answer: Activation
‣ What is the neural circuitry that travels outside the spinal cord? .
Answer: Peripheral nervous system
‣ Acetylcholine . Answer: A neurotransmitter that enables learning and
memory and also triggers muscle contraction
‣ Which of the following is a sensory receptor within a muscle that
detects changes in length and helps regulate contraction? . Answer:
Muscle spindle
‣ Which of the following are branches of the cell body that act as
receivers, collecting information from other neurons? . Answer:
Dendrites
‣ A cascade of events, resulting in muscle contraction, is triggered when
which of the following chemical neurotransmitters binds to receptors on
the muscle? . Answer: Acetylecholine
, ‣ Which division of the peripheral nervous system controls voluntary
movement? . Answer: Somatic nervous system
‣ Which type of motor unit can contract for many hours, or even days if
necessary? . Answer: Slow (S) of Motor Unit
‣ Which type of motor unit has a large motor neuron and consists of a
large bundle of type IIx muscle fibers? . Answer: Fast fatigable (FF)
‣ Voluntary movement starts in the . Answer: Cerebral cortex
‣ Which of the following is the process that allows a muscle spindle to
contract at the same rate as the muscle where it resides? . Answer:
Alpha-gamma co-activation
‣ motor unit recruitment . Answer: recruitment of more muscle fibers
through motor unit activation
‣ lower motor neurons . Answer: axons leave the CNS, extend through
PNS to skeletal muscles. Cell bodies in anterior horns of spinal cord and
in cranial nerve nuclei of brainstem
‣ There are 31 pairs of nerves in the human body. . Answer: True
‣ sensory nerves . Answer: Nerves that carry information from the sense
receptors to the spinal cord and brain. Also called affecting nerves
Questions and Answers | Examination
Preparation Guide | Graded A+
‣ Type 2a . Answer: Activation
‣ What is the neural circuitry that travels outside the spinal cord? .
Answer: Peripheral nervous system
‣ Acetylcholine . Answer: A neurotransmitter that enables learning and
memory and also triggers muscle contraction
‣ Which of the following is a sensory receptor within a muscle that
detects changes in length and helps regulate contraction? . Answer:
Muscle spindle
‣ Which of the following are branches of the cell body that act as
receivers, collecting information from other neurons? . Answer:
Dendrites
‣ A cascade of events, resulting in muscle contraction, is triggered when
which of the following chemical neurotransmitters binds to receptors on
the muscle? . Answer: Acetylecholine
, ‣ Which division of the peripheral nervous system controls voluntary
movement? . Answer: Somatic nervous system
‣ Which type of motor unit can contract for many hours, or even days if
necessary? . Answer: Slow (S) of Motor Unit
‣ Which type of motor unit has a large motor neuron and consists of a
large bundle of type IIx muscle fibers? . Answer: Fast fatigable (FF)
‣ Voluntary movement starts in the . Answer: Cerebral cortex
‣ Which of the following is the process that allows a muscle spindle to
contract at the same rate as the muscle where it resides? . Answer:
Alpha-gamma co-activation
‣ motor unit recruitment . Answer: recruitment of more muscle fibers
through motor unit activation
‣ lower motor neurons . Answer: axons leave the CNS, extend through
PNS to skeletal muscles. Cell bodies in anterior horns of spinal cord and
in cranial nerve nuclei of brainstem
‣ There are 31 pairs of nerves in the human body. . Answer: True
‣ sensory nerves . Answer: Nerves that carry information from the sense
receptors to the spinal cord and brain. Also called affecting nerves
