Buddy 1997: Unintended Conditioning

Marjoryn O. Paglinawan February 22, 2017
2014-67221 Psych 140- B The movie Buddy 1997 tells the story of how an animal lover named Mrs. Trudy taught Buddy, a gorilla, on how to act like a person, but things got complicated when Buddy grew up and became stronger. Then a traumatic event happened to him, whenever he feels threatened, he smashes everything he sees. Mrs. Trudy attempted to eliminate Buddy’s trauma, but unfortunately she failed. With that, she just decided to let go of Buddy for her family’s sake and for Buddy’s sake also. There were two types of classical conditioning illustrated in the movie. First was the intended type of conditioning and the second was the unintended type of conditioning. The intended conditioning

On the other hand, when Buddy became afraid of loud noises because of the traumatic event that happened to him, Buddy was conditioned unintentionally. It was unintentional. The unintentional conditioning was the climax of the movie therefore it should be emphasized. There were two events where unintended conditioning was illustrated. The first was when Buddy was conditioned to be attracted to the color red. What happened was when Buddy entered the master bedroom and found Mrs. Trudy putting red colored lipstick on her lips, Buddy instantly became attracted to its color, because he associated the presence of Mrs. Turdy to the color red. The color red was the neutral stimulus and the presence of Mrs. Turdy became the unconditioned stimulus that elicited an unconditioned response which was the feeling of security and safety because Mrs. Turdy is there for him. The red color, then becomes the conditioned stimulus and the feeling of safety and security then became the conditioned response. Another situation where conditioning was unintended was when buddy became afraid of loud noises like the loud beating of drums. When Buddy participated the Chicago World’s Fair he accidentally got lost and went to a public