Sentences with phrase «little electric shock»

Later the scientists would turn on the light and then give the rats a little electric shock.

Not exact matches

In fact, to preserve the shock of this parable, he wires up an electric fence just a little way back.

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

Her lab is tidy, containing her electric chair, in which I will be shocked, and a few odd little instruments, like a bike helmet that blows air on your face to make you anxious.

With some mice, they tested a drug that is known to prevent the scaling down, but the drug appeared to make little difference in the ways mice remembered and avoided a location that gave them a mild electric shock.

Former soldier used electric shock collar designed for unruly dogs on a little boy.

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.

A common static electric shock hits you with thousands of volts but little current.

Imagine this little shop of horrors for a dog, living in a home strewn with electric sensing and shocking devices, and then clicked and treated, too.

Punishments such as leash jerks and collar corrections, hitting, poking, «nudging,» kicking, hanging by the collar, or using electric shock or spray collars may be effective in suppressing behavior at that moment, but these tools and techniques do little to solve the problem in the long term and can make a dog's behavior much worse in the future.

An individual that has suffered an electric shock can have a variety of symptoms ranging from very little external evidence of injury to very severe and obvious burns.

Although I think it's a little extreme that a study in the journal Science showed that people would rather give themselves electric shocks than be alone with their thoughts for 15 minutes **.