B.F. Skinner a normal old man. Father, Husband, major contributor to the scientific field of psychology.... Or a Monster whos practices made the tormenting of souls easier.
-The Summary-
was convicted of Rape and Murder Charges. Alex was young an through his youth and charisima became a favorite of the jail's Priest. He used his natural charisima to find out and become a candidate for a new expirment. The experiment, as Alex heard it, was suppose to get you out of Jail ,quick, and keep you out. Agianst the suggestions of the Priest Alex gets himself noticed by the Minister in charge of the program , and selected immediatley.
The Background: Overflow in jails is a serious problem, it was in the 50's in America that the CIA started Project MKULTRA. This was a porject that was seeking ways to Control minds period. It wasn't uncovered until the 70's. The Author of the Novel A Clockwork Orange was Anthony Burgess. Burgess disapproved of Watson and Skinner's theories of Behaviourism. Dr. Ludovico's experment is akin to the acual CIA project, but the movie is a message to beware using mind control to achieve Utopian Society.
The Experiment: Upon arriving at the Medial center Alex was prepared to watch a Movie. He was injected with Chemical "114", which he was told was to boost his nutrition. He was brought to a cinema setting were he was straped in to a chair, with straight jacket. His eyes were also kept apart with forceps. He was forced to watch scenes with violence and rape. While watching the scenes Chemical "114" made him violently (pun inteded) sick. So Violent Alex who enjoyed violent scenes began to become disgusted by them. in the 3rd exepriment Beethoven's 9th Symphony, 4th Movment, was played in the background. This horrified Alex.
Being intelligent he had guessed that they were conditioining to make him feel sick toward violent sitiautions. He did no want to be sick everytme he heard Beethoven. Through protest the expirment was completed leaving Alex incapable of making moral based chocies, and instead mad diblatingly sick when confronted by violence or sex.
-Learning Psychology-
Clssical Conditioning- is the pairing of a neutral stimiuls with a provoking stimiulus. The provoking stimulus causes a response where as the neutral stimulus causes no visible or apparent response. When these stimuli are paired together repetedly association occurs. with association the introduction of the neutral stimilus causes a response similiar the provoking stimiulus.
Unconditioned Stimiuls = provoking stimulus UCS Unconditioned Response = reaction to UCR
Conditioned Stimulus = neutral stimulus Conditioned Response= reaction to CR
In the movie Alex is given chemical "114" (UCS) + he watches violent/sexual movies (CS)
--> When he sees violence, or feels violent, he becomes/feels sick(UCR)
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By the 3rd experiment Beethoven is played(CS) + Chemical "114" (UCS) --> When he hears Beethoven He feels sick and paralyzed.
-Reaction-
Know as the movie and the Authors intent would suggest Skinner's methods of Classical Conditioing are horrific and injust. (FALSE)
Ivan Pavlov is the originator of Classical Conditioning. Where as Skinner did Operant Conditioning. The Movie was made as to speak out agianst the horros of science and it use to control humans. It generalized two figures in the world of psychology and belittled it to Mad-Man-like practices. The movie made religion as the savior of man and science as the twister of souls. In the movie the priest warns Alex of the dangers of the experiment, but Alex goes agianst his advice. When the scientest presents Alex to the audience it is the priest who speaks out agianst the demonstration. The preist cites the fact that Alex is know not in control of his own body inable to use the gift God gave man. From a political view the movie mad science into the big bad wolf out to mentaly neuter the troubled people of the world.
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