A Clockwork Orange is about a fifteen year old boy named Alex who lives in England, based in the not-so-distant future (from when the movie was made, it may be considered the past now). Alex leads his friends, called droogs, in random acts of horrible violence. After getting arrested for murder, Alex is sent to prison. After two years in prison Alex is transferred to an experimental rehabilitation programme called "the Ludovico technique", which promises that the prisoner will be released upon completion of the two-week treatment and, as a result, will not commit any crimes afterwards. This technique is an extreme example of Classical Conditioning. This technique involved the doctors giving Alex a shot causing him to feel extreme nausea, right before showing him horrific scenes of violence. His emotional response to these images became paired with the horrible sick feeling they injected into him.
Thus, violence became the neutral stimulus while the sickness is the unconditioned response. After the experiment is complete the condition response becomes the illness whenever any violence takes place.
Thus, violence became the neutral stimulus while the sickness is the unconditioned response. After the experiment is complete the condition response becomes the illness whenever any violence takes place. You can view this whole scene here:
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