In A Clockwork Orange, Alex DeLarge is brought to jail after being convicted of murder. Once in prison, Alex hears about a treatment that can take him out of jail and potentially turn him good. The method used to cure Alex is a cruel example of classical conditioning. It is within classical conditioning that one learns to associate a certain stimulus with a particular response. The doctors in A Clockwork Orange give Alex an injection that produces feelings of nausea. Alex’s eyes are forced to remain open as he watches a series of violent films. Alex inevitably feels sick as he watches. The shot is the unconditioned stimulus, which leads to the unconditioned response, nausea. Because of this treatment, Alex is forced to link illness with the neutral stimulus, which is violence in this case. This form of classical conditioning leads Alex to associate violence with feelings of nausea, and thus prevents him from committing crimes in the future.
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