NLP Practitioner Certification Test
List and discuss 10 presuppositions of NLP. - Answer-1. Respect for the other persons model of the
world.
2. Behavior & Change are to be evaluated in terms of context and ecology.
3. Resistance in a client is a sign of a lack of rapport.
4. People are not their behaviors.
5. Everyone is doing the best they can with the resources they have available.
6. The Map is not the territory.
7. You are in charge of your mind & therefore your results.
8. People have all the resources they need to succeed and achieve their desired outcomes.
9. There is only feed back.
10. The Meaning of communication is the response you get.
What is the law of requisite variety? - Answer-The law of requisite variety is the person or part of the
system with the most flexibility of behavior will control the system.
What is rapport? - Answer-Rapport is a process in which your communication is uncritically accepted by
those you are communicating with.
,List five things to match is getting rapport. - Answer-1. Gestures
2. Posture
3. Tonality
4. Breathing
5. Physiology
What is cross-over mirroring? When is it useful? - Answer-Cross over mirroring is when you mirror what
someone else is doing with a different part of your body. It is useful to slow down overt behavior, or to
get rapport with a crowd from stage.
Fill in the eye patterns of a normally organized, right-handed person (as you look at them) - Answer-Up
left - Visual Constructed
Left - Auditory Constructed
Down left - Kinesthetic
Up right - Visual Remembered
Right - Auditory Remembered
Down right - Auditory Digital
What is meant by "Primary Representational System," and how do you detect it? - Answer-The system
of senses a person use in their day to day language - shows how they learn & communicate.
It is detected by listening to the predicates they use & watching their physiology.
What is meant by "Lead Representational System," and how do you detect it? - Answer-How an
individual accesses information internally. It can be detected by looking at eye accessing clues.
For each of the following predicate, identify whether they are visual (V), auditory tonal (At), kinesthetic
(K), olfactory (O), gustatory (G), or audio digital (Ad). - Answer-Stink (O) Warm (K)
, Tough (K) Look (V)
See (V) Hear (At)
Yummy (G) Remember (Ad)
Look (V) Feel (K)
Sense (Ad) Taste (G)
Thoughtful (Ad) Viewpoint (V)
Tell (At) Survey (Ad)
Tension (K) Putrid (O)
Push (K) Shocking (K)
Watch (V) Silent (At)
Music (At) Hard (K)
Throw (K) Motivate (Ad)
Bitter (G) Brilliant (V)
Translate the following sentences into a different representational system. - Answer-Things look good. -
This feels like it is going to turn out well.
It is so quiet that you can hear a pin drop. - Everything looks completely still.
That sounds like a great idea. - This feels like the right thing to do.
People don't see me as I see myself. - People don't seem to understand me.
Your words leave a sour taste in my mouth. - Your words don't make sense to me.
Every day above ground is a great day! - Every day is beautiful.
What is "Overlapping Representational Systems" and when would you use the pattern? - Answer-
Helping a client notice something about an experience that they may otherwise be missing through
using only their preferred representational system. To do this begin describing an experience in their
preferred representational system then transition to another.
List and discuss 10 presuppositions of NLP. - Answer-1. Respect for the other persons model of the
world.
2. Behavior & Change are to be evaluated in terms of context and ecology.
3. Resistance in a client is a sign of a lack of rapport.
4. People are not their behaviors.
5. Everyone is doing the best they can with the resources they have available.
6. The Map is not the territory.
7. You are in charge of your mind & therefore your results.
8. People have all the resources they need to succeed and achieve their desired outcomes.
9. There is only feed back.
10. The Meaning of communication is the response you get.
What is the law of requisite variety? - Answer-The law of requisite variety is the person or part of the
system with the most flexibility of behavior will control the system.
What is rapport? - Answer-Rapport is a process in which your communication is uncritically accepted by
those you are communicating with.
,List five things to match is getting rapport. - Answer-1. Gestures
2. Posture
3. Tonality
4. Breathing
5. Physiology
What is cross-over mirroring? When is it useful? - Answer-Cross over mirroring is when you mirror what
someone else is doing with a different part of your body. It is useful to slow down overt behavior, or to
get rapport with a crowd from stage.
Fill in the eye patterns of a normally organized, right-handed person (as you look at them) - Answer-Up
left - Visual Constructed
Left - Auditory Constructed
Down left - Kinesthetic
Up right - Visual Remembered
Right - Auditory Remembered
Down right - Auditory Digital
What is meant by "Primary Representational System," and how do you detect it? - Answer-The system
of senses a person use in their day to day language - shows how they learn & communicate.
It is detected by listening to the predicates they use & watching their physiology.
What is meant by "Lead Representational System," and how do you detect it? - Answer-How an
individual accesses information internally. It can be detected by looking at eye accessing clues.
For each of the following predicate, identify whether they are visual (V), auditory tonal (At), kinesthetic
(K), olfactory (O), gustatory (G), or audio digital (Ad). - Answer-Stink (O) Warm (K)
, Tough (K) Look (V)
See (V) Hear (At)
Yummy (G) Remember (Ad)
Look (V) Feel (K)
Sense (Ad) Taste (G)
Thoughtful (Ad) Viewpoint (V)
Tell (At) Survey (Ad)
Tension (K) Putrid (O)
Push (K) Shocking (K)
Watch (V) Silent (At)
Music (At) Hard (K)
Throw (K) Motivate (Ad)
Bitter (G) Brilliant (V)
Translate the following sentences into a different representational system. - Answer-Things look good. -
This feels like it is going to turn out well.
It is so quiet that you can hear a pin drop. - Everything looks completely still.
That sounds like a great idea. - This feels like the right thing to do.
People don't see me as I see myself. - People don't seem to understand me.
Your words leave a sour taste in my mouth. - Your words don't make sense to me.
Every day above ground is a great day! - Every day is beautiful.
What is "Overlapping Representational Systems" and when would you use the pattern? - Answer-
Helping a client notice something about an experience that they may otherwise be missing through
using only their preferred representational system. To do this begin describing an experience in their
preferred representational system then transition to another.
