Behavioral Conditioning In Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

Even though behavioral conditioning receives much negative attention, the concept plays a major part in today’s society, such as it does in Huxley's Brave New World. Society routinely subjects itself to operant condition through occurrences such as attaining “points” for losing weight at a fitness club or collecting a different variety points through a club card in hopes to receive a “free gift” (Burgemeester). A single day wouldn’t suffice without the influence of behavioral conditioning. Businesses would receive a lack of attention and, consequently, a lost of economic profits. With the aid of behavioral conditioning, clients become more accustomed to a business's products and more likely to repurchase. Therefore, behavioral conditioning,

Huxley parallels the conditioning’s impact more drastically within Brave New World. The fictional society’s common presence of the conditioning center and its routine treatments is only a single example of the conditioning’s impact. Within the center, delta-casted infants are conditioned to receive little intelligence and to have a high sense of consumerism through “books and loud noises, flowers and electrics shocks...compromisingly linked...and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly” (Huxley). Similar to today’s ordinary presence of behavioral conditioning, the society within Huxley's satire is based upon conditioning for nearly each citizen has become accustomed to and has been conditioned. Even though conditioning appears in different intensities when comparing the two societies, it still greatly defines and contributes to the society’s way of life. A community will be more able-bodied with the over looming presence of gym points or there might be a high sense of social order as society is conditioned to achieve certain

Cognitive behavior therapy frequently utilizes “The ABC Model of Behaviour Management. The model is so simple, yet it at the heart of managing challenging behaviour. It involves the application operant conditioning which is there to reinforce desirable behaviours” (Burgemeester). No advanced technology is required nor used to perform this specific treatment. Simply, the overseers reward the patient for performing the desired behavior or action. Once the patient identifies what behavior is being reward, they constantly, or more frequently, perform what is rewarded. However, with extremely advanced technology, behavioral conditioning is intensified within the society within Brave New World. The futuristic technology includes requiring the harvested embryos to endure “hot tunnels alternated with cool tunnels. Coolness was wedded to discomfort in the form of hard x-rays. By the time they were decanted the embryos had a horror of cold. They were predestined to emigrate to the tropics, to be miners and acetate silk spinners and steel workers” (Huxley). The process illustrated by Huxley involves not only a vast array of technology, bul also a great amount of knowledge and research. Unlike what is used today, behavioral conditioning within Huxley’s fictional society embodies an excessive process, leading to a