Psychological Conditioning

Because she finds Bernard so strange, Lenina contemplates whether or not she should go to the North Pole with Benito Hoover instead of going to New Mexico with Bernard even though she has already been to the North Pole once before and did not enjoy it. She convinces Bernard to go to a wrestling show and Bernard is sullen the entire time and refuses to take Lenina's suggestion to take some soma. On their way back, he stops within a hundred feet of the waves of the Channel and begins talking about his feelings of being an individual, while Lenina begs him to leave due to the “rushing emptiness of the night.” She convinces him to take some soma and they go back and have sex.

There are three main theories of development that I shall discuss in this assignment, 'Cognitive', the main theorist being, 'Piaget', (1896 - 1980), The, 'Psychosocial Theory', 'Erikson', (1902 - 1994), and, The 'Psychosexual', of, 'Freud', (1856 - 1939).

The chapter starts off by Lenina barging into the men's locker room, to tell Bernard that she wants to go to the savage reserve with him in front of everyone in the locker room. This causes him to get extremely embarrassed. Later in the chapter she leaves to go on a date with Henry. Bernard orders people to go get his helicopter ready, but they just laugh and ignore him. Bernard is smaller than the average Alpha, which makes him very insecure about his size. Later, He goes to see his friend Helmholtz to talk to him about his problems of feeling like an outcast.

In the large library of literature, many works have focused on the poor, including The Communist Manifesto, a work written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels where they argue that the poor (or proletariat) will eventually revolt. In this novel, some aspects of that philosophy are present, resulting in its ironic twist. When humans are being engineered, the Controllers choose what each set of embryos’ roles will be in society and alter their development to give (or take) an advantage. Alphas are to be the world leaders, while Deltas, Gammas, and Epsilons are to be the

This amount of time spent only with one lover is completely unorthodox in the World State. Lenina remains unaltered until she meets John. John seems to trigger something deeper within Lenina because he defies all of her conditioning. She is confused when they are both attracted to one another yet John denies the chance to sleep with her. For instance, later on in the novel after John and Lenina go out on their first date, John decides to take a taxi and go home rather than sleep with her. This confuses Lenina because she has never had that happen before. Lenina is conflicted because she wants to have sex and values John's physical beauty. However, she is not able to understand his emotional depth and how passionately he feels about her. She goes into a downward spiral of melancholy and refuses to take soma. She spends time alone and remains upset. This is the first hint of her developing changes and shows her defiance towards her conditioning. She is willing to experience the emotional pain in spite of her brainwashing; this demonstrates a deep change in her values. The most intense example of her change is at the end

With the election of Obama as the 44th president, commentators on media outlets were proclaiming that America had ushered in the post-racial era in its history. How does a nation, in just 40 years, overcome the conditioning 245 years of conditioning of a collective traded as a livestock commodity, 77 plus years of legal social conditioning of a collective as second class citizens, and 10 plus years struggling for civil rights against tolerated illegal social conditioning of a collective as unfit for integration and assimilation? Only in 2009 did the governing body of the United States apologize for slavery, seemingly appearing the nation has never come to terms with it sorted past. In this apology the senate was admit that this would not open

When Bernard and Lenina reach the reservation, Lenina is shocked by the horrible place, she finds the place strange, but she finds some similarities between the Indians’ pounding of the drums and with their Ford’s Day celebrations. Things get more disgust and frightening when she sees a ritual in which they suck blood from a child until he dies. When Lenina wants to eat her Soma to forget the bad views she saw, she realizes that she forgets them at the hotel. Lenina and Bernard met an Indian who speaks English; he informs them that the bloody ritual is for asking the gods for rain.

Conditioning and hypnopaedic lessons, being one of the very important controls, are procedures that all babies are required to be put through in their premature years. The conditioning of minds allows the government to impress its ideas upon the maturing children. It causes them to love their own caste and acknowledge the presence of other castes. Tomakin, the Director of the Hatchery Centre, explains, “They’ll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an instinctive hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned. They’ll be safe from books and botany all their lives (Huxley 30).” The process includes the electrifying of babies and the alarming sound of a bell as they approach the books and the flowers. This causes them to be conditioned to hate books and flowers. Being able to read, become intelligent, admire the beauty of nature, or vice versa should not be the choice of the state. Conditioning limits the citizens from experiencing the enjoyment of sports, hobbies, entertainment, and talents. With the restriction of true exposure to open interests and activities, the citizens are experiencing simulated happiness.

The book starts in the year 632, After Ford, where humans are being fertilized in labs and genetically modified based on a rigid caste system. Altogether there are five castes, where the top groups enjoy greater tasks, and the lower ones have more the menial jobs. Along with this there are ten “Controllers” that hold all the power over the people in the World State and establish rules such as; marriage is not allowed, and children are produced in factories and no longer will have parents. The books opens with the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning leading a tour in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. He is explaining the process of how humans are now made, since being born from real people and having parents is no longer

The principles and theories of Social Psychology are important and useful in assessing behaviors in situations. These social psychological principles and their applications can be seen in fictional films which can also be attributed to everyday life. One such film that holds certain social psychological perspectives is Will Gluck’s 2010 production of Easy A. A film about high school student Olive Penderghast and how a sudden change in popularity and financial status, after an unintentional rumor about how she supposedly lost her virginity to a college guy spread through the entire her school. The film draws on the behavioral connections of pronounced hussy Olive Penderghast and her English class’s assigned reading of The Scarlet Letter.

When I was in my psychology class in high school, we spent a month talking about classical conditioning and we did many interesting experiments involving it. We also touched on operant conditioning and social learning, so I have some background knowledge in this subject. Classical and operant conditioning, along with social learning, are all ways to teach animals or humans how to behave. These theories developed because psychologists wanted to understand why people behave the way they do and many famous experiments have been conducted to answer this question. It was very interesting to learn more about these theories and how they work, and relating them to my own personal experiences.

Have you ever met someone who can instantly fall asleep minutes after they get into bed, while you struggle constantly to fall asleep, and wonder how they do it? There are many easy ways to fall asleep almost instantly at night, but this method is one of the easiest ways to fall asleep.

Avoidance conditioning is associated with the concept of negative reinforcement. In fact negative reinforcement contributes to an escape behavior initially and secondly to the avoidance behavior. The escape behavior of an organism occurs when the organism performs an action that terminates the aversive stimulus that it is receiving at the current moment in time. More importantly, the avoidance conditioning occurs when a warning stimulus indicates to an organism that a particular aversive event is present and allows the organism time to actively participate in a certain behavior response in order to avoid the aversive stimulus (Powell, Honey, & Symbaluk, 2013). Subsequently, avoidance conditioning can be demonstrated utilizing the shuttle box procedure. According to Domjan (2006), the shuttle box contains an electrically conductive metal grate floor and also contains a partition in the middle with a hole cut out in the center of it that allows an organism (such as a rat) to shuttle from one compartment to another during avoidance conditioning trials. Coincidentally, this particular response is also called shuttle avoidance. Indeed, to better comprehend avoidance conditioning, an understanding of Mowrer’s Two-Factor Theory,

While at the bathroom, Lenina is talking to Fanny Crowne who says she feels “out of sorts”. In order to remove this feeling, Fanny takes a drug that gives the same hormonal effect as being pregnant. While doing so, Fanny encourages Lenina to find another person to date and be more sexually open because she has been with Henry for four months. Being with one single person for a certain amount of time is against the flow of society in terms of normal sexuality. Lenina then mentions that she was invited to visit a Savage Reservation by hypnopaedia specialist, Bernard Max.

Psychological manipulation is a type of social influence that aims to change the behavior or perception of others through abusive, deceptive, or underhanded tactics by advancing the interests of the manipulator, often at another's expense, such methods could be considered exploitative, abusive, devious, and deceptive. The process of manipulation involves bringing an unknowing victim under the domination of the manipulator, often using deception, and using the victim to serve their own purposes. Psychological manipulation can be used by people with great power as well as the common individual to get people to do what they want.