Sentence examples for given a shock from inspiring English sources

In the human experiments, volunteers were shown a blue square on a computer screen and then given a shock.

So they were each given a shock, purportedly by the machine, of 45 volts, which most of them estimated to be 70 volts.

These animals take up residence in abandoned seashells, but they can be made to give up their home if given a shock inside the shell.

One green bar chart keeps track of the number of times her daughter has engaged in prohibited behavior; another, the number of times she was given a shock.

Elwood found that the likelihood of a hermit crab's dumping its shell when given a shock depends not only on the intensity of the shock but also on the desirability of the shell.

If over time, however, the rat hears the sound and is not given a shock, another region of the brain, the frontal cortex, sends signals to the amygdala to inhibit the fear response.

Every now and then, a visit gives a shock.

It will not give a shock to a normally beating heart.

Like professional defibrillators in hospitals, AEDs are designed to give a shock to a heart that is experiencing cardiac arrest.

Giving a shock to animals that had not retrieved the memory, in contrast, did not cause amnesia.

But instead of giving a shock, he delivered a dose of anisomycin directly into the rats' brains.