Sentences with phrase «by electric shocks»

He showed his friends pictures of a man whose facial muscles were distorted in various ways by electric shocks and quizzed them about what emotion the man seemed to be feeling.

(V) Long - term memory, which is based upon material memory traces and therefore (unlike short - term memory) can not be extinguished by electric shocks, can be prevented by the injection of compounds which prevent the formation of proteins.

Cataracts can be congenital (born with it), age - related; of genetic origin (the most common cause); caused by trauma; by dietary deficiency (some kitten milk replacement formulas have been implicated); by electric shock; or by toxin.

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The report quoted a 39 - year old man who said he was subjected to electric shocks at a facility allegedly run by Ukraine's Security Service, or SBU.

When I tried to cuddle, touch, kiss or even talk to her the heart breaking responses I would get were like an electric shock to the heart, what are you doing, why are you doing that, stop it, don't and the list went on again on till she was in the mood but by now I had, had enough.

The initial shock was, of course, followed by electric currents of anger that coursed through my son's little body.

For 2017, Mudders will again be tested by ten miles of Mount Snow's varied and steep terrain, and will contend with obstacles that feature mud, ice - cold water, barbed wire, electric shocks and other challenges that the Tough Mudder design team has dreamt up over the years.

Outlet covers prevent babies from the electric shock by putting fingers or other objects in outlets.

Opponents point out that in countries where police officers are already equipped with electric shock weapons, officers frequently abuse them by causing unnecessary pain to suspects which could be subdued in other ways (not necessarily representative example: the «don't tase me, bro!»

The controversial Taser guns stun individuals with an electric shock but are only permitted to be used by trained firearms officers facing an armed person.

All that and still time for the regular Politics Max round - up of political issues sent in by viewers and an explanation of why the seemingly loony policy of fitting electric shock collars to lying politicians could be law before you know it.

Using exquisitely precise methods to measure how memories are embedded in brain cells in mice, scientists have shown how fear - based memories prompted by the sound associated with an electric shock can be activated and erased.

In the 1960s, as a graduate - student researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, he discovered that dogs zapped with an electric shock and allowed to escape by jumping over a low barrier quickly learned to do so, but most shocked dogs given no escape option eventually gave up, even when a way to flee was introduced later.

Christine suffered from excruciating and unpredictable bouts of stabbing, electric - shock - like facial pain that might last seconds or minutes and could be triggered simply by chewing, sipping a cold drink or exposing her face to a winter breeze.

F1 teams won't have forgotten the electric shock received by a BMW Sauber engineer in 2008 — shown on Youtube — when a KERS connection shorted to an F1 car's bodywork.

While subjects were in the scanner, the researchers administered a series of electric shocks to their wrists, each time warning them (by showing them either a blue or a red cue on a screen) whether the next shock would be mild or intense.

Volunteers designated as «teachers» were asked by an experimenter to continue upping the intensity of what they thought were electric shocks to a «learner» — who was actually in league with Milgram — who erred time and again on a word - recall test.

Because the cells are oriented inside the electric organ like a series of batteries piled into a flashlight, the current generated by an activated cell «shocks» any inactive neighbor into action, setting off an avalanche of activation that runs its course in just two milliseconds or so.

The researchers subjected the animals to small electric shocks, but also taught the animals how to escape the shocks by pressing a small lever.

Milgram, who was already famous for the obedience experiment in which study subjects administered painful electric shocks to other study subjects when urged to do so by an authority figure, came up with the letter method as a tool to try to solve the problem in real life.

Rats freeze (a classic stress response) for about 15 minutes when zapped by three low - intensity electric shocks — «the equivalent of touching a light socket and getting a zing,» says Vaishali Bakshi, a postdoctoral fellow at the institute.

By turns both moving and chilling, Blass's biography profiles psychologist Stanley Milgram, who conducted the notorious 1960s obedience experiments in which compliant subjects inflicted what seemed to be electric shocks on a screaming victim (in fact an actor) on orders from an authority figure.

To find out, he set up an experiment in which subjects were instructed by men in white lab coats to deliver increasingly intense electric shocks to victims who screamed in pain, complained of a heart condition, and begged for the experiment to be halted.

In his book Darwin printed pictures of people getting electric shocks, which were taken by the French physician Guillaume - Benjamin - Amand Duchenne.

For those unfamiliar with the Milgram experiment, it tested people's willingness to deliverer electric shocks to another person when encouraged by an experimenter.

The Milgram experiment tested people's willingness to deliverer electric shocks to another person when encouraged by an experimenter.

Mice can be conditioned to fear a sound by giving them an electric shock every time they hear it.

Surprising sight seen by airplane pilots and passengers on «red eye» flight Last night, April 19 - 20, a shock wave in the solar wind hit Earth's magnetic field, sparking a moderately strong G2 - class geomagnetic storm and rare «electric blue» auroras seen from airplanes in flight over Canada.

After a while, they gave the mice mild electric shocks to their feet and a blue light flashed in their brains delivered by a fiber - optic cable, implanting the memory that the Red Room was a dangerous place.

Classical conditioning is a learning process that occurs both in animals and humans alike when two stimuli are repeatedly paired (such as the bell ringing and the feeding, or a particular behavior and the electric shock), so that the response originally elicited by the second stimulus (the secretion of saliva that originally occurs in the presence of food or the unpleasant sensation that follows an electric shock) is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone (meaning that after a number of repetitions, the sound of the bell is enough to make the dog salivate like it does in the presence of food and the engagement in unwanted behavior is enough to make you feel the same discomfort an electric shock would cause).

It can be caused by previous heart damage, drowning, electric shock, or other reasons.

When Paulina recognizes Miranda as the one who tortured her with electric shocks and while raping her played Schubert's Death and the Maiden to calm her, she kidnaps him and plans to get him to confess or to get her revenge by killing him.

The study depicted in Experimenter (Grade: B --RRB- is just as controversial but less theatrical: A decade before Stanford started and aborted its own little autopsy of human behavior, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard, eventually rocking some unflattering facial hair) tested people's willingness to obey authority by instructing volunteers to administer electric shocks to strangers in another room.

Animals are shocked by an electric fence.

Gaffigan plays Milgram's confederate in the experiments, an actor who pretends to receive increasingly dangerous electric shocks administered by research subjects — played by recognizable faces like Anthony Edwards and John Leguizamo — who've been tricked into thinking they're participating in a study of short - term memory.

The other man, «Teacher,» will monitor the responses given by Learner (who's out of sight) and, when he gives wrong answers, give him a series of increasingly strong electric shocks.

The devices work by giving the patient an electric shock designed to restore a regular beat to a heart that has become arrhythmic, or chaotic, causing sudden cardiac arrest.

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By using this type of electric dog training device, you can give your dog a small electric shock when you need to correct certain behaviours.

They can get a shock from chewing on electric cords and can be poisoned by chewing on iron oxide pads, DeClementi said.

While most electronic fences work by delivering a mild electric shock, some emit ultrasound or a combination of shock and ultrasound that alerts the dog as he approaches the boundary.

A research grant awarded to the University of Bristol and University of Lincoln was bestowed by DEFRA amid concerns that the use of electric shocks in dog training is both physically and psychologically damaging.

The electric shock provided by most training collars is very low, though it does have the potential to cause serious harm.

After four years of campaigning, the Kennel Club has jubilantly welcomed the announcement made by Wales» Rural Affairs Minister, Elin Jones AM that, subject to approval by the National Assembly for Wales, the use of electric shock collars will be banned...

«Multiple studies have shown that if you take two mammals, say rats, and put them in boxes side by side, then give the first one electric shocks, the reaction of the second one — in terms of brain - wave and nervous - system activity — will be identical,» says Stephen Zawistowski, a certified applied animal behaviorist and an executive vice president of the ASPCA.

The electric shock from these remote dog training collars is initiated by the owner or a dog trainer who holds a remote - control device.

The collars are used on dogs by some to give an electric shock when the dog is deemed to be behaving incorrectly.

A YouGov survey about electric shock collars, commissioned by the Kennel Club in 2009, that 70 % disapproved of the use of electric shock collars on dogs, with only 9 % of people approving of their use.