When they put a dog in the box that had never been shocked before or had previously been allowed to escape and tried to zap it-it jumped the fence. The dog still just sat there and took it. They decided to try shocking the dog after the bell. He figured if the dog rang the bell, it would hop over the fence to escape, but it didn't. After they were conditioned, he put these dogs in a big box with a little fence dividing it into two halves. To keep them still, he restrained them in a harness during the experiment. Seligman wanted to head in the other direction, and when he rang his bell, instead of providing food, he zapped the dogs with electricity. He was trying to expand on the research of Pavlov-the guy who could make dogs salivate when they heard a bell ring. “In 1965, a psychologist named Martin Seligman started shocking dogs.
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