A prime example of learning and conditioning is the movie Clockwork Orange. Alex, a fifteen-year-old wild child, is a gang leader in a city governed by totalitarism. Citizens of the town, unknown to them, are living in a place of growing violence. Alex's gang spends most of its time rapped up in crimes that involve robbery, fights, auto theft, breaking and entering, and rape. The other spare time is spent at the Korova Milkbar, a place where milk is laced with drugs. After getting into a fight with his members who have turned on him, Alex is beaten at a house they have broken into and is captured by the police. Immediately after his arrival at the station, Alex learns that a woman his gang attacked previously has died and he will stand on trial for murder. The judge comes to a verdict of fourteen years behind bars.
After his first two years he becomes the first to test an experimental treatment called Luovico's Technique. It is, in the most basic sense, a form of brainwashing that incorporates associative learning. Before each treatment Alex is injected with a substance that makes him extremely sick. After he has been injected he is forced to watch several violent movies and listen to classical music. Alex quickly associates the violence and music with nausea and headaches. After only two weeks Alex can no longer enjoy his love of classical music, which egged on his violent actions in the past.
After two weeks of treatment and his previous two years in prison, Alex is released back into society as a harmless human, unable to perform any time of violent acts. However, the downside to his new treatment was that he was now not only harmless but also defenseless making it possible for all of his old enemies and followers to take their revenge on him.
This is an example of unconditioned response: Without prior learning, the classical music sent him into a violent state and gave him the push needed to release his anger.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v90KPJ6n4Ew
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In this clip the doctors are using Alex to show how the conditioned stimulus (the music) are creating a conditioned response (being sick).
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