Sentences with phrase «white rat»

She pulls out another plastic cage, occupied by a large white rat with red eyes that is nursing a dozen 21 - day - old pups.
In the early part of the twentieth century, the behaviorists Watson and Rayner, in an attempt to prove that fear was a learned behavior, exposed nine - month - old «Little Albert» to neutral stimuli like white rats, monkeys, and sheaves of burned newsprint.
«My father used to train large white rats for the circus,» Max says.
Whereas Little Albert learned to fear white rats in the 1920s, rats learned to fear a simple noise more than 80 years later.
(In fact, the ubiquitous white rat that conjures lab coats and mazes is a common brown rat simply bred as an albino.)
This retelling of a Japanese folktale has flying white rats, a fire - breathing bird, a snow demon, and other creepy things.
Initially, the baby test subject was unperturbed by the series of simians, rodents, and flames, but after Watson repeatedly paired the rats with unconscionably loud noises, over time «Little Albert» developed a fear not only of white rats but of all things furry.
The domestic white rat also nipped an Orange County animal control officer as he tried to capture it, officials said.
As a supplement to APT Validation Study II, the research aims for Validation Study III are to (1) generate master scores for video clips of youth program observations without cultural bias, (2) create more tailored and targeted online training and anchor systems, and (3) eliminate significant differences in certification passing rates between groups with different cultural vantage points (i.e., Black vs. White raters, urban vs. non-urban program experiences).
This heritage holds that man is more than «a larger white rat or a slower computer «16 — his freedom, awareness, valuing, caring, and creativeness constitute the core of his humanness.
«That little white rat looks like a big white rat,» he said.
Regulators could ban experiments involving animals, like this white rat, at Indian universities, under a proposed animal welfare law.
Daniel Margoliash, PhD, associate professor of organismal biology and anatomy, and Albert Yu, MD, a graduate student in neurobiology, have provided the most detailed look yet at how the brain controls singing in the zebra finch, which Margoliash calls the «white rat» of songbirds.
Her first pet was a white rat, and soon after that her family got their first dog, a Wheaten Terrier named Maggie.
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