In Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, Alex DeLarge's droogs (his friends) betray him and leave him to be arrested for Ultra-violence and rape. While in prison, Alex becomes good friends with the chaplain and joins him in a treatment, Ludovico. The Ludovico treatment is a therapy to help rehabilitate criminals. For the therapy, Alex was given a drug as an Unconditional Stimulus, then forced to watch violent films as the Conditioned Stimulus. The drug makes Alex feel nausea during the film, the Unconditioned Response. BUT then after a few treatments, he beings to connect his nausea feeling to the violent films, the Neutral Stimulus. This is an example of Ivan Pavlov's Classical Conditioning. Post treatment, Alex begins to lose the connection with nausea feeling and violent crimes, Extinction. In result, the treatment fails and he continues to murder again. A video on Classical Conditioning:
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