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Psych 1311: A Brief Summary

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Nathan Lacy Psych 1311 L. L. Boyarsky and Stewart (1957) studied what happens when cats and dogs were made to shiver through cold then introduced to an electric shock. Each animal had one leg hooked up to a phonograph crystal pickup by a rubber band in order to record the intensity of the shivering. Then, the cats and dogs had ice placed on their noses to induce a cold shiver. Once the shiver had started, the animal would be introduced to a specific voltage of electricity for a specific time frame. They tested out three different voltage and cycles of the voltage per second combinations (70 volts at 40 and 60 cycles and 40 volts at 60 cycles a second). When 70 volts at 60 cycles a second was placed upon the animals’ skin, the shivering stopped.
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