Hey guys, it's Hannah Branigan here, and you're listening to drinking from the toilet.

The podcast where we talk about real dogs and real training and real

trainers and real training plans. This week, I want to pick up where we left off last time

talking about splitting because one of the things that helps me a lot when I'm thinking about

how to split behavior and develop my training plan is to consider the behavior in terms of a movement

cycle. But in order for that to be helpful for you, you have to understand what a movement cycle

is and what that term means. You'll also hear me refer to it as a behavior cycle, and I really don't

know if that's a legit term that I picked up somewhere else and

is truly interchangeable, or if I just made it up, then I'm using it inappropriately, and

thousands of behavior analysts all over the world are getting annoyed with me. But until I'm told,

otherwise, I'm just going to go with it, and I'm going to use those terms interchangeably.

So what is a movement cycle or a behavior cycle?

Well, this is an idea that was first described by Dr. Ogden-Lensley, who was a psychologist

who studied under B.F. Skinner at Harvard and then went on to open his own behavior

research laboratory where he did a lot of cool stuff in the area of teaching

and behavior and training.

You may recognize his name from the famous concept, the dead man's rule, or in dog training

we often refer to it as the dead dog rule.

And that's the idea that if a dead man can do it, then it's not behavior.

And this rule comes up a lot when we talk about that

list of knows and don't that a lot of owners show up at training classes with. We want the dog to

stop doing this and don't do that and that whole list of annoying behaviors that we want them to

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