What is the definition or description of: toilet training?

Behavior modificatio: Young children learn to control their sphincters as they get older. Toilet training involves the learning of the steps involved, from learning to pull pants down to understanding that poop goes in the toilet. This process is completed slightly earlier for girls vs boys.

TOILET TRAINING: Training directed at teaching a child proper control of bladder and bowel functions. Psychoanalytic personality theory believes that the attitudes of both parent and child concerning this training may have important psychological implications for the child's later development.

Potty Training: Toilet training, is the process of training a young child to use a toilet or "potty chair" for urination and defecation . A child who can walk from room to room, pull his pants up & down & say "pee-pee", " poo-poo" or "potty" when he senses the urge is ready to toilet train. Rewarding attempts as well as successes & ignoring accidents, basic behavioral precepts, effectively shape this behavior.