NLP Modeling Excellence & Strategy 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which of the following BEST distinguishes NLP modeling from simple behavioral imitation?
- NLP modeling focuses only on copying visible actions
- NLP modeling captures internal subjective strategies, beliefs, and physiology — not just external behaviors (Correct answer)
- NLP modeling uses hypnosis to transfer skills directly
- NLP modeling requires years of practice before any transfer occurs
Correct 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.
Question 2: A coach is helping a client install a new confidence strategy. After eliciting it from an exemplar, the NEXT step is to:
- Have the client observe the exemplar again for 30 more hours
- Walk the client through the strategy steps while they access each representational system in sequence (Correct answer)
- Ask the client to read a written summary of the strategy
- Have the client rate their current confidence on a scale of 1-10
Correct 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.
Question 3: Eye accessing cues during strategy elicitation are used to:
- Detect whether a person is lying
- Identify which representational system is being accessed at each step (Correct answer)
- Measure the emotional intensity of an experience
- Establish rapport through matched eye contact
Correct 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.
Question 4: When a modeler intentionally sets aside their own beliefs and behaviors to be fully available to the model's patterns, this is called:
- Dissociation
- Clean modeling or second position absorption (Correct answer)
- Perceptual acuity
- Calibration baseline
Correct 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.
Question 5: Which of the following is an example of a 'comparative deletion' that a modeler should probe during elicitation?
- 'I always feel nervous before presenting.'
- 'This approach is better.' (Correct answer)
- 'Nobody understands my process.'
- 'I can't explain how I do it.'
Correct 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.
Question 6: 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:
- An irrelevant emotional reaction
- The kinesthetic test step that confirms readiness in their strategy (Correct answer)
- A sign of anxiety that interferes with performance
- A submodality distinction that needs to be removed
Correct 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.
Question 7: What is the PRIMARY purpose of the 'subtraction' phase in NLP behavioral modeling?
- To remove unwanted habits from the model's behavior set
- To identify which elements of the model are essential versus incidental to producing the result (Correct answer)
- To simplify the strategy for faster conscious execution
- To eliminate negative self-talk from the model's internal dialogue
Correct 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.
NLP Modeling Excellence & Strategy 4
Which of the following BEST distinguishes NLP modeling from simple behavioral imitation?