Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same sort of differences exist, said Von Frisch, in interpreting the other basic dance steps-the "round dance," conducted without posterial shimmying, and the "sickle dance." a semicircular pattern accompanied by a slightly wagging rear end-that locate the pollen. Moreover, he added, when an individually marked bee of a primitive species was introduced into the hive of an Apis mellifera, the breakdown of communication was almost complete...
...then begins his daily tour of his auto empire. He pops into the new-car showroom, opening new-car doors to make sure the interior is clean, checks to see how sales are going. In the service department, he leafs through service orders to see if there is any pattern of complaints that suggest a weakness in a new car. He even drops into the repair waiting room, applying his sunny personality and speeding up someone who has an appointment with the dentist. Says Moran: "There's a million things that nobody asks about but me." Moran, who neither...
...Everyone at Cross Automatic Controls is meant to have his own meter, but the main differences between the characters lie in typography: the president speaks in big square blocks, the advertising man in short, jagged lines. Jim Smalley, assistant director of sales promotion, has perhaps the most arresting-looking pattern: am a conformist (they say}-/ love what I think they think I should; I am doing just what is expected Oh God, let them notice me draw upon me fully I so so want to rise...
...brownish bird found only under domestication. A point of note about the male ring dove is that he inflates his esophagus (gullet) and bows when making his cooing sound before target females. Experts on animal behavior have assumed that the courting actions are all part of a single instinctive pattern fixed within the brain. When such a pattern is released, it must go through its full course-in this case, throat swelling, cooing and bowing...
...Josh operated on male doves, inserting small tubes in their gullets to let the air out. Then he made motion pictures and sound recordings of their courting behavior. The birds could still coo rather hoarsely, but they could not inflate their gullets, and they did not complete the courting pattern by bowing to the females. This, explains Josh, indicates that the pattern does not come as a unit from the bird's brain but can be cut short by an external influence...