Hey guys, welcome back to drinking from the toilet. I'm your host, Hannah Branigan.

This episode is going to be another in our series of exploring concepts and language we use

when we're talking about training and behavior, particularly in the area of fluency, particularly

because, well, when we're dog trainers or training animals, we do want to understand the nature

of behavior and how it fits into the world and biology, but we

also want to go a step further and talk about the applied side of things. And we want to know,

well, we want to know how to control behavior, how to change it, to squish it around and make

things with it, to get the stuff that we want, whether that's everyday stuff, challenging behavior

stuff, or valuable prizes.

In episode 30, we talked about the concept of stimulus control, getting a behavior on cue

so that we can communicate which behavior to do and when to do it.

And this week, I want to build on that a little bit and talk about the concept of latency, which

is a little bit different, but it is related.

One of the reasons I like talking about terminology, well, partly it's just because I'm really

geeky and I kind of love getting into the nerdy details of my favorite subjects,

but also because I've found over time that it often ends up

giving me a word to talk about some phenomenon that I've already observed or something I've

already noticed and I've been wondering about.

And I didn't know it was a thing.

And then I learned this new concept with the new word associated and I find out, oh, there's

a word for that.

The German language is really good at that kind of thing.

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