Ladders are a flooding technique?

[kannon]

Does anyone know what this technique is?I saw this phrase used in one of the treads. I looked up flooding as a psychological technique used for humans but could not find anything about birds.Just curious!

[Michael]

When people make a scared clipped bird step up from one hand to another over and over again with nowhere to go, this is flooding.

[Wolf]

When people make a scared clipped bird step up from one hand to another over and over again with nowhere to go, this is flooding.

And this is called laddering.

[Pajarita]

Flooding is any technique that imposes our will on the bird without allowing the bird a choice or manipulating the circumstances to the point that the bird has no real option but to do what we want. For example, taking a bird into a dark or a small and completely unfamiliar room (which would scare it) so he would 'get used' to us; toweling and scratching the bird's head to make him accept our touch; feeding it only when it's used as a reward for training; clipping so the bird cannot fly away from us, etc are all flooding techniques. Laddering is considered a flooding technique because the bird has no choice but to senselessly step up from one hand to another over and over and over.