Every second, approximately two million pieces of information are fed into your brain much of which must be screened out to prevent brain overload. Which one of the modelling processes given in the options is the name for this screening out of information?
In a lost performative statement, the person states a value judgement without mentioning the performer or speaker, for example: “Boys shouldn’t cry”. Which one of the following questions should you ask in order to challenge this statement?
Who says boys shouldn’t cry?
What would happen if boys stopped crying?
What stops boys from crying?
In generalizations, a person makes one category represent a whole group, resulting in statements that leave no room for any exceptions, for example: “All Captains are aggressive”. To challenge this statement, which one of the following questions should be asked?
In that ways are Captains aggressive?
What stops Captains from being aggressive?
In which one of the modelling processes given in the options do you alter the meaning and structure of information as you simplify the descriptions of your experiences?
Necessity words describe a model of reality that believes in necessity. Such words define some governing rule the person operates from for example: “I should remember all these policies by heart”. Which one of the following questions should you ask in order to challenge this statement?
What would happen if you didn’t remember all these policies?
How specifically do you want to remember all these policies by heart?
Select from the options given the one phrase that correctly completes the following statement. Question technique intends to reconnect a speaker’s language with the:
Experience out of which it came.
Language used on board the ship.
Experience of the other person.
Language of the other person.
Select from the options given the one word that correctly completes the following statement. A person’s verbal description of an experience is often distorted, deleted and:
Select from the option which contains the two terms that correctly fill the gaps in the following statements. “____ lies in the unconscious parts of your mind and it is represented in your experiences. On the other hand, ____ is where you seek to present, articulate, express and clarify your experiences”.
Deep structure, surface structure.
Surface structure, language.
Deep structure, communication.
Select from the options given, the one phrase or word that correctly completes the following statement. When a person thinks and asserts that they know the thoughts, motives and intentions of another person, they are engaged in:
Select from the options given, the one phrase or word that correctly completes the following statement. The aim of asking challenging questions is to:
Uncover the missing information that showed up in the surface structure of the speaker’s words.
Make the speaker feel more comfortable.
Elaborate more on his feelings and emotions.
Select from the options given, the one phrase or word that correctly completes the following statement. When a sentence lacks a ____, it fails to specify the name, term, or phrase that points to.
Select from the options given, the one phrase or word that correctly completes the following statement. Challenging questions inquire about the incompleteness that shows up in the ____ and these enable the speaker to restore the material that was deleted, distorted, and generalized.
Select from the options given, the one word that correctly completes the following statement. When moving from the deep structure in your unconscious mind to the surface structure that comes out of your conscious mind and mouth, you do all of these modelling processes except:
Select from the options given, the one word that correctly fills the gap in the following statement. You generate a ____ statement whenever you use a part of an experience as being equivalent to the whole of its meaning. When you become aware of the external cue, you then assume the meaning of the whole experience.
The statement “He is much better off”, is an example of comparative deletion where the specific reference or standard by which the comparison was made is deleted. In order to challenge this statement, which one of the following questions should you ask?
The statement, “I can’t learn efficiently”, depicts operators of possibility and reveals the person’s belief in what they can or cannot do in life. In order to challenge this statement, which one of the following questions should you ask?
What would happen if you did change that belief?
The statement, “The Fourth Engineer committed a mistake”, is an example of a statement with unspecified verbs, where description is vague and the action is not specified enough to make a clear representation. Which one of the responses given in the options should you use to challenge this statement?
How exactly did he commit the mistake?
When did he commit the mistake?
How often does he commit the mistake?
The statement, “They did not come to the meeting”, is an example of one with a “lack of referential index”. Which one of the responses given in the options should you use to challenge this statement?
Who specifically did not come to the meeting?
Why did they come to the meeting?
According to whom do you say such?
The statement, “You did not finish the maintenance job due yesterday; you are lazy”, is an example of complex equivalence, where the speaker uses a part of an experience as the equivalent of the whole of its meaning. In order to challenge this statement, which one of the following questions should you ask?
How specifically does my inability to finish the maintenance job due yesterday mean that I am lazy?
Are you sure that I am lazy?
The statement, “You make me bad!”, illustrates a cause-effect statement. In order to challenge this, which one of the following questions should you ask?
How specifically do I cause you to feel bad?
Who said that I cause you to feel bad?
Since when did I cause you to feel bad?
The statement, “You make me mad!”, is an over-used accusation which illustrates a cause-effect statement. Which one of the responses given in the options should you use to challenge this statement?
How specifically did I cause you to feel mad?
Which one of the actions given in the options does a human brain NOT do to information it receives?
Which one of the following questions should you ask in order to challenge a mind reading statement?
How specifically do you know how I think or feel that …?
What would happen if you did/didn’t…?
Which one of the following statements about question technique is NOT true?
It is possible to fully describe an experience.
People can only draw a map of reality but cannot express the whole scenario.
No verbal descriptions can fully describe an experience.
People can only draw a map of reality but cannot express the whole scenario.
Which one of the following statements does NOT use any operators of possibility?
I must go on shore leave tomorrow.
I am not ready with the inspection.
I am not capable of doing the job.
I can’t learn efficiently.
Which one of the options identifies the modelling process in which your brain compares new information with similar information previously learned therefore allowing you to learn quickly?
Which one of the question types given in the options should be used to inquire on the incompleteness that shows up in surface structures?
An investigative question.
Which one of the reasons given in the options best identifies why it is difficult to drag out the right information from another person during a conversation?
Because none of us gives a complete picture or description of the thought behind the words.
Because we are not speaking the same language.
Because we never listen properly.
Because we intentionally don’t tell the truth.
Which one of the statements given in the options best describes what would happen if you attempted to completely describe your thoughts?
You would never be able to finish speaking.
You would be able to do it in an instant.
You would easily be able to tell everything in your thoughts.
You would always create a hostile atmosphere.
Which of the terms given in the options can be defined as the “internal representation of the deep structure”?
Read the statements below and identify the “cause-effect statements”.
Read the statements below and identify the “unspecified verb statements”.
Read the statements below and identify the “simple and comparative deletions statements”.
Read the statements below and identify the “operators of possibility statements”.
Read the statements below and identify the “operators of necessity statements”.
Read the statements below and identify the “mind reading statements”.
Read the statements below and identify the “lost performative statements”.
Read the statements below and identify the “lack of referential index statements”.
Read the statements below and identify the “generalized statements”.
Read the statements below and identify the “complex equivalence statements”.
Identify the “operators of possibility statements” below, which are appropriately challenged by such “operators of possibility questions” as “What would happen if you change that belief?” “What stops you from doing that?”