Sentences with phrase «unpleasant stimulus»

A sensory - based feeding disorder, oral aversion is more common in premature babies, and especially those who have experienced a longer stay in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) because of unpleasant stimuli to their mouths or faces they have experienced during treatments.

The mice that received the chemical also better remembered cues associated with unpleasant stimuli — the sort of fear conditioning that could help a mouse avoid being preyed upon.

The first phase of the response (as described in the previous section) helps the baby react to an unpleasant stimuli.

«We thought that because people with tinnitus constantly hear a bothersome, unpleasant stimulus, they would have an even higher amount of activity in the amygdala when hearing these sounds, but it was lesser,» she said.

Most often, these are collars that deliver an unpleasant stimulus when your dog barks.

Positive Punishment P +: an unpleasant stimulus discourages a behavior the dog will stop doing it.

Negative Reinforcement R -: an unpleasant stimulus is removed to encourage a behavior.

Aversive training techniques, which have been seen to be used by Cesar Millan (The Dog Whisperer) are based on the principle of applying an unpleasant stimulus to inhibit behaviour.

In order to teach the dog the behaviors you want or don't want, you need to provide a pleasant stimulus (i.e. praise or food) when he does something right and provide an unpleasant stimulus (i.e. a stern NO or a quick jerk on the collar) when he does something you don't want.