If you find yourself stuck in a situation where you're having trouble fading a prompt, your dog is waiting for the prompt, I want you to watch out for getting to mentally stuck in, like, quote, the way this is done.

Look for other possibilities. If you can kind of break out of that and take a step back and look for some lateral options,

you will often see a clearer path to cue fading.

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slash dFTT. Okay, so let's talk about fading prompts or lures. So I guess before we talk about that,

we need to define it, right? So what is a prompt or lure? What's the difference? Is there a difference?

I mean, in some ways,

there really isn't a difference at all, right? All of these things really fall under that antecedent

umbrella. They are part of the conditions under which the behavior is occurring. And so they

influence the likelihood of that behavior occurring. Like they're all,

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