NLP Core Principles & Techniques 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In NLP, the Meta-Model is primarily used to:
- Induce hypnotic trance states
- Challenge linguistic distortions and recover deleted information (Correct answer)
- Create future-paced visualizations
- Anchor positive emotional states
Correct answer: Challenge linguistic distortions and recover deleted information
The Meta-Model uses specific questions to challenge deletions, distortions, and generalizations in a client's language to recover missing information.
Question 2: Which NLP concept describes the idea that the map is not the territory?
- Calibration
- Presupposition of representation
- The representational model (Correct answer)
- Sensory acuity
Correct answer: The representational model
NLP's foundational presupposition that 'the map is not the territory' means our internal representations (maps) differ from external reality (territory).
Question 3: The Milton Model in NLP is characterized by:
- Precise, specific language to uncover deletions
- Vague, artfully ambiguous language to bypass resistance (Correct answer)
- Direct commands for behavioral change
- Logical argument structures
Correct answer: Vague, artfully ambiguous language to bypass resistance
The Milton Model uses deliberately vague and ambiguous language patterns drawn from Milton Erickson's hypnotherapy to access the unconscious mind.
Question 4: A client says 'Everyone always ignores me.' An NLP coach using the Meta-Model would most appropriately respond:
- That must feel awful for you
- Can you think of a time when someone did pay attention to you? (Correct answer)
- You need to be more assertive
- Let's anchor a feeling of being noticed
Correct answer: Can you think of a time when someone did pay attention to you?
Challenging the universal quantifier 'everyone always' by seeking a counter-example helps the client recover a more accurate representation.
Question 5: In NLP, 'second position' perceptual position means:
- Viewing a situation from your own perspective
- Experiencing the world as if you were the other person (Correct answer)
- Observing both parties from a detached viewpoint
- Imagining a future desired state
Correct answer: Experiencing the world as if you were the other person
Second position involves stepping into another person's perspective to understand their feelings, values, and viewpoint.
Question 6: Which of the following best defines 'calibration' in NLP?
- Setting measurable coaching goals
- Observing and reading subtle non-verbal cues in another person (Correct answer)
- Adjusting one's tone of voice for rapport
- Anchoring a specific emotional state
Correct answer: Observing and reading subtle non-verbal cues in another person
Calibration is the NLP skill of accurately reading another person's internal state through observable external cues like breathing, skin tone, and muscle tension.
Question 7: The NLP technique of 'future pacing' is used to:
- Regress a client to a past resourceful memory
- Test whether a new behavior or belief will generalize to real-world contexts (Correct answer)
- Break a negative anchor by creating a competing stimulus
- Identify the structure of a problem state
Correct answer: Test whether a new behavior or belief will generalize to real-world contexts
Future pacing mentally rehearses a new behavior in an anticipated future context to ensure the change will be triggered naturally.
NLP Core Principles & Techniques 2
In NLP, the Meta-Model is primarily used to: