Modeling Excellence & Strategy Flashcards

Which of the following BEST distinguishes NLP modeling from simple behavioral imitation?

Answer: NLP modeling captures internal subjective strategies, beliefs, and physiology — not just external behaviors

NLP modeling targets the deep structure — the internal representations, beliefs, values, and physiological states — that produce the external behaviors.

A coach is helping a client install a new confidence strategy. After eliciting it from an exemplar, the NEXT step is to:

Answer: Walk the client through the strategy steps while they access each representational system in sequence

Installation involves guiding the client to actively run through each representational system step of the strategy to internalize it experientially.

Eye accessing cues during strategy elicitation are used to:

Answer: Identify which representational system is being accessed at each step

Eye accessing cues are lateral eye movements that correspond to specific representational systems (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) being accessed.

When a modeler intentionally sets aside their own beliefs and behaviors to be fully available to the model's patterns, this is called:

Answer: Clean modeling or second position absorption

Clean modeling requires the modeler to temporarily suspend their own filters and identity to take in the exemplar's experience without contamination.

Which of the following is an example of a 'comparative deletion' that a modeler should probe during elicitation?

Answer: 'This approach is better.'

Comparative deletions (e.g., 'better,' 'worse,' 'more') omit the comparison standard, which must be recovered to understand the exemplar's criteria.

In modeling a master coach, you discover they always feel a kinesthetic shift (warmth in the chest) before asking a powerful question. This shift is best described as:

Answer: The kinesthetic test step that confirms readiness in their strategy

Internal kinesthetic signals in an expert's strategy often function as test conditions confirming alignment before the next behavioral step.

What is the PRIMARY purpose of the 'subtraction' phase in NLP behavioral modeling?

Answer: To identify which elements of the model are essential versus incidental to producing the result

Subtraction tests which components of the modeled behavior are necessary by removing elements and checking whether the result still occurs.