Classical Conditioning In M. Night Shyamalan's The Village

M. Night Shyamalan's The Village is a "psychological thriller". Classical conditioning, mental disorders, and senses are some of the categories of psychology found in the movie, everything else stems from these three categories.
There are several examples of classical conditioning in The Village. The villagers exhibit fear around the color red because they have had it drilled into their heads since birth that red is "the bad color". The color red attracts "those we do not speak of", monsters with whom there is a tentative treaty, or so the villagers believe. Threats of violence or harm are the unconditioned stimulus, which evoke the unconditioned response: fear. Threats paired with warnings of the color red result in fear. Finally, red brings about fear all on its own even though a color cannot physically harm a person.
Similarly, the villagers have been told that yellow is the safe color and it will protect a person from "those we do not speak of". Through the same series, yellow evokes feelings of safety in the people. Ivy, when traveling through the woods, knows that the monsters are not real and yet she is still fearful when her yellow robe becomes completely covered in mud. This conditioning is so deeply ingrained in her mind that it
will not be easily extinct.
Each elder experienced the death of someone close to him or her at the hands of another person.
They got together and each story that they heard increasingly convinced them that these people and money where evil. Because they had all had these terrible things happen to them once they began to believe that this might be a pretty common occurrence and that maybe all of the people, or at least most, of the world where bad people at heart. They generalized their fear to include all people, not just the ones that had wronged them. They therefore came up with "The Village" where they could live in a simpler time with out the corruption of the modern day and without money at all. They made the village to try to be without
sin.
Senses develop the psychology in the movie. Because Ivy is blind her other senses are heightened. When she crawls out of the hole in the woods, she feels the jagged, pointy end of a fallen tree. When she is running form the creature, she runs into this tree stump again and knows there is a hole nearby. This is called a sensory memory. Her brain associated that texture and shape with the memory of the hole in the ground. She then used this information to do what she believed was saving her life.
Noah has a mental disorder, but what kind of disorder it is they never say. He has a sort of perpetual innocence and lack of fear. It is almost as though the conditioning that holds the others so tightly does not affect him. He does not fear to go into the woods or to see the bad color. Because he is mentally disabled, he thinks of things as simple and easily solved. He loves Ivy. He thinks she will love him back. Lucius takes Ivy away from him. If he gets rid of Lucius, Ivy can love him and Lucius wont be in the way. This is his reasoning but he does not understand that Ivy will blame him for the death of one she loves.