Sadie likes to go to an aerobics class on monday, wednesday, and friday. the aerobic step and dance routines they do have many, many steps and constitute behavioral chains. the aerobics teacher has everyone perform one step of the routine multiple times and asks, does everyone get it

A behavior chain is an event in which units of behavior occur in sequences and are linked together by learned cues.

There is another procudure called Back-chaining, which means teaching those units in reverse order and reinforcing each unit with the cue for the next, is a training technique.

To teach a behavior chain, a complex skill or sequence of behaviors is first broken down into smaller units that may be easier to learn than the entire chain.

In Aerobical classes each step is a cue for the next one. And as they are repeated over and over again, it is an easy to follow bevaviour