Sentences with phrase «unpleasant electric shock»

While the collars can be effective, dogs may start to associate the unpleasant electric shock with objects or behaviors other than barking.

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In a 2006 study, people zapped with unpredictable electric shocks to the hand rated the pain as more unpleasant than when they knew what to expect.

In one telling experiment, each of 55 participants was seated alone in a quiet, empty room with nothing to do — except they had access to a button that would deliver an electric shock to their ankle which they had previously described as «unpleasant.»

This is expensive and very unpleasant as it gives a painful electric shock if the patient develops VT..

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).

In this photo he is sitting in the garden, wearing his special collar which first emitted an audible warning sound, and if Harry went too far, the collar gave an unpleasant but safe electric shock to teach him to stay within the fence boundaries.