Overall, these findings suggest that the processes that constrain attention deployment over conjoined objects can be strategically adjusted.
Shaping by successive approximations is an important animal training technique in which behavior is gradually adjusted in response to strategically timed reinforcements.
Using a 4-by-5 camera, she strategically adjusts the lens and image planes in relation to each other.
Working with the skills of a professional sign painter, the former linguist traffics in puns, anagrams and palindromes and further complicates matters by strategically adjusting visual form to conceptual content.
Previous research demonstrated that when subjects have a high level of expectancy that a stimulus will be incongruent, they are able to strategically adjust the relative influence of word reading on color naming.
Honeyguides puncture more heavily when laying late relative to the host, suggesting they can strategically adjust puncturing behaviour in relation to its potential benefits [ 8].
Thus, even though a male desert goby can strategically adjust its courtship effort, his displays were highly consistent when re-encountering the same females.
Even though desert goby males are capable of strategically adjusting their courtship (both in this study and according to female size in [ 17, 18]), the current results indicate that courtship effort of a male is consistent when he experiences a similar situation on two adjacent days.
In this situation, men could extensively monitor and strategically adjust their verbal and nonverbal behavior during the interaction, and they had to exert effort to make the interaction run smoothly and override habitual or dispositional responses in order to make the desired impression (Vohs et al., 2005).
Previously, males were shown to adjust their courtship effort strategically by courting larger females more intensely [ 17].
Indeed, in desert gobies, males are known to adjust their courtship effort strategically towards females of different reproductive value (based on dichotomous assessment of female body size: [ 17, 18]).
