The following passages are from George Herbert Mead's early published papers when he was still heavily influenced by Wilhelm Wundt.
I cannot say for sure yet, but I think the above "inhibition" may be very helpful in considering the "pause" in Chapter VII-A "Symbolic process" of "A Process Model" (Gendlin, 2018). This is still only my hypothesis.
Incidentally, in Mead's later lecture notes, he discusses how dog fighting, though involving gestures, is different from human gestures, as follows:
In any case, I am still unable to draw clear boundaries and articulate which parts of Mead's argument Gendlin inherited and developed, which parts of it Gendlin criticized and modified, and where the advantage of "A Process Model" lies in explaining the evolution of gestures from animals to humans. That will be my future task.
Note
[*1] The word "form" used in the passages above is an abbreviation for "life form," and is used almost interchangeably with "organism."
References
Gendlin, E. T. (2018). A process model. Northwestern University Press.
Mead, G. H. (1964/1981). Selected writings (edited by A. J. Reck). University of Chicago Press.
Mead, G. H. (1982). 1927 class lectures in social psychology. In The individual and the social self: unpublished work of George Herbert Mead (edited by D. L. Miller) (pp. 106-75). University of Chicago Press.