 I think we'll start this out with the demo. We got the Hilbert chain, as you're going to have eight pads. One of my bills! Wow! You grabbed by the pumpkin full of her. Yeah. We might be wrong. We're buddy, but not always a gentleman. Springtime in our area is full of bugs. It's lovely. Actually, it's not spring anymore. It's still spring. Anyway, whatever. So, prompts. We got two kinds of prompts, right? We have response prompts, and we have stimulus prompts. So, let's spend a bit of time talking about response prompts. Response prompts are awesome. You might wonder how I ended up in the water. Well, you could probably come up with a conclusion of, maybe someone prompted me to get there. I bet it's the person behind the camera, or not, but I'll let you decide on that one. So, anyway, response prompts. First thing is verbal instructions. Ryan, get in the water. I'm a pretty functional person, so when I was told to get in the water, I just cut the water, right? Let's see. What are some of the other ones that we could do? Modeling, right? Someone could have gotten in the water first, and said, Ryan, get in the water. Join me in the water, right, so they could model that sort of thing. That's pretty straightforward. Then there's the physical prompts, right? Which, you know, one could be, get in the water, right? A sort of physical prompt like that. I don't know what, that's a major prompt. What would you call that kind of prompt? Full physical. Full physical prompt, right? Or you could do like a graduated guidance thing. We could kindly gently get people in there with kind of just helping them along, supporting them as they get down there. Those sorts of things, I suppose. So those are your general types of prompting. Now keep in mind the prompting is not a discriminative stimulus. It's just kind of a nudge, right? And SD is something completely different. The fact that there was water present was probably the SD in order for somebody to say, go get in the water, right? To provide the prompt for me to do that, okay? So there's that. Let me see what else. I guess maybe not. That would have been a motivating operation. These things get really confusing when you start to think about it. So anyway, the prompting is not a discriminative stimulus. It's not a motivating operation. It exists independently of those to help the person get into contact or to engage in the particular behavior to get in contact with the contingency. So that's a response prompt. A stimulus prompt is something a little different, right? So if you notice that you've got a really clear stimulus, but it doesn't seem to be that the organism or the person is attending to that particular stimulus, do something about it, okay? So if I was trying to get you to attend to the water, which maybe I am, maybe I am a stimulus prompt. Why am I a stimulus prompt right now? Because I'm making something happen with the water, right? I'm making movement as a good example of a stimulus prompt. So we could get the stimulus to move a little bit to get you to attend to it. That could be one thing. You could put a little sign on the water. There could be a boat floating behind me, and that might get you to attend to the water. So there's all sorts of things you could do with stimulus prompts. The point is, is that if the person or the organism that you're working with is not attending to the discriminative stimulus or not attending to something that you want them to attend to, you might need to provide a stimulus prompt. So there you go. There's prompting in a nutshell or actually more like prompting in a river. Let it flow, man. Just let it flow. I did. Dad jokes are thick today, folks. Share. Please. Please.