Milton Model

Question 1

Define a mind read and give an example.

Answer 1

Claiming to know the thoughts or feelings of another without specifying the process by which you came to know the info.
Example: “I know that you are wondering…”

Question 2

Define a Lost Performative and give an example.

Answer 2

Value judgements where the performer of the value judgement is left out.
Example: “And it’s a good thing to wonder…”

Question 3

Define a Cause & Effect and give an example.

Answer 3

Where it is implied that one thing causes another.  Implied Causatives include:
1.C-->E Makes
2. If...Then...
3. As you....Then you...
Example: "Because..."

Question 4

Define a Complex Equivalence and give an example.

Answer 4

Where two things are equated - as in their meanings being equivalent.
Example: “That means…”

Question 5

Define Presuppositions and give an example.

Answer 5

The linguistic equivalent of assumptions.

Example: “You are learning many things…”

Question 6

Define a Universal Quantifier and give an example.

Answer 6

A set of words that have the following characteristics:
1. Universal generalizations and
2. No referential index.
Example: “and all the things, all the things…”

Question 7

Define a Modal Operator and give an example.

Answer 7

Words which imply possibility or necessity, and which form our rules in life.
Example: “That you can learn…”

Question 8

Define a Nominalization and give an example.

Answer 8

Process words that have been frozen in time by making them into nouns.
Example: “Provide you with new insights, and new understandings…”

Question 9

Define an Unspecified Verb and give an example.

Answer 9

Example: “And you can,”

What you can do is unspecified.

Question 10

Define a Tag Question and give an example.

Answer 10

A question added after a statement, designed to displace resistance.
Example: “…can you not?”

Question 11

Define a Lack of Referential Index and give an example.

Answer 11

A phrase that does not pick out a specific portion of the listener’s experience.
Example: “One can, you know…”

Question 12

Define a Comparative Deletion and give an example.

Answer 12

Also called an Unspecified Comparison.
Where the comparison is made and it is not specified as to what or whom it was made.
Example: “And it’s more or less the right thing…”

Question 13

Define Pacing Current Experience and give an example.

Answer 13

Where client’s experience (verifiable, external) is described in a way which is undeniable.
Example: “You are sitting here, listening to me, looking at me, (etc)…”

Question 14

Define a Double Bind and give an example.

Answer 14

Wherein the illusion of choice is offered using an “or”. However, usually both choices are desired.
Example: “And that means that your unconscious mind is also here, and you can hear (phonological ambiguity) what I say. And since that’s the case, you are probably learning about this and already know more at an unconscious level than you think you do, and it’s not right for me to tell him, learn this or learn that, let him learn in any way he wants, in any order”

Question 15

Define a Conversational Postulate and give an example.

Answer 15

The communication has the form of a question, a question to which the response is either a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’. If I want you to do something, what else must be present so that you will do it, and out of your awareness? It allows you to choose to respond or not and avoids authoritarianism.
Example: “Would you feel more comfortable if your eyes were closed?”

Question 16

Define Extended Quotes and give an example.

Answer 16

Where it is not possible for one to tell where one quote finishes and another begins.
Example: “Last week I was with Richard who told me about his training in 1983 at Denver when he talked to someone who said…”

Question 17

Define a Selectional Restriction Violation and give an example.

Answer 17

A sentence that is not well formed in that only humans and animals can have feelings.
Example: “A chair can have feelings…”

Question 18

Define Ambiguities and give an example.

Answer 18

A. Phonological: two words with different meanings sound alike.
Example: “Here, hear”
B. Syntactic: Where the function of a word cannot immediately be determined from the immediate context.
Example: “They are visiting relatives.” “Speaking to you as a child.”
C. Scope: Where it cannot be determined by linguistic context how much is applied to that sentence by some other portion of the sentence.
Example: “The old men and women…” “The disturbing noises and thoughts…” “The weight of your hands and feet..”
D. Punctuation
Run on Sentences: “I want you to notice your hand me the glass.”
Incomplete Sentences: A sentence left unfinished. “Would you rather go into a trance now or…”
Pause at Improper Places: “Can you please pass out…(Pause)… the flyers?

Question 19

Define a Utilization and give an example.

Answer 19

Utilize all that happens or is said by mentioning what is verifiable.
Example:
Client: “I’m not sold.”
Practitioner: “That’s right, you’re not sold yet, because you haven’t asked the one question that will have you totally and completely sold.”