Diagnostic Methodology for the Structure of Signaling Systems Test - the question form
Questions: 56 · 11 minutes
1. To understand something, do you often rely on mental images?
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2. Do you feel drawn to drawing?
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3. Do you clearly understand the language of symbols, formulas, and graphs?
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4. Do you enjoy telling friends about things you have seen?
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5. Do you tend to generalize the information you have, moving away from specifics toward more general, abstract formulations?
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6. Do you usually spend a lot of time reflecting on what you have seen or heard and on what is happening around you?
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7. Is it easier for you to understand something by handling it with your hands (for example, by assembling or taking it apart)?
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8. Do you try to enrich your speech with metaphoric expressions?
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9. Are drawing, sculpting, or arts and crafts your favorite activities?
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10. When explaining something, do you often use signs, symbols, or drawings?
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11. Do you have literary ability?
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12. Do you like abstract painting?
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13. Do you easily find meaning in abstract images?
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14. Have you ever been able to assemble or repair a technical device with your own hands?
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15. Do you agree that speech without epithets, metaphors, and figurative expressions is dry and uninteresting?
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16. When you read a book, do you vividly imagine what is happening, as if you were directly participating in the events?
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17. Do you have a good memory for signs, symbols, and numbers?
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18. Are you considered a good storyteller?
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19. Do you easily come up with some kind of nonsense word to replace a long verbal expression?
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20. Do you find yourself thinking that every symbol or sign in a work of art carries deep meaning?
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21. Do you often feel drawn to needlework, hands-on work, or making crafts?
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22. Do you enjoy it when a speaker uses a well-chosen metaphor, allegory, parable, or joke?
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23. Do you try to build a personal collection of art reproductions and books on art?
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24. Do you have a good command of sign language and formulas?
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25. Do you write poetry?
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26. Do people you know say that you rely on abstractions too often?
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27. Do you ever watch the same film multiple times and see it in a new way each time?
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28. Do people call you a “handy person”?
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29. Do you like poetry for its originality of expression and interesting associations?
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30. Is the language of visual images more understandable to you than the language of symbols and formulas?
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31. When writing, do you try to use abbreviations (for example, shortening words to their initial letters)?
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32. Do you enjoy speaking in front of an audience?
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33. Would you like your work to involve sign systems, machine languages, etc.?
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34. When going to bed, do you often review the day in your mind and try to organize your impressions?
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35. Do you enjoy working with equipment?
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36. Do you try to turn more often to works of fiction to find images, metaphors, apt expressions, or amusing sayings you need?
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37. Do you have a rich imagination and a vivid, active fantasy?
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38. Do you find it easy to learn computer programming languages?
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39. Do you speak any foreign languages?
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40. Do you sometimes feel tempted to use more complicated or harder-to-understand phrases in conversation?
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41. Do you try to think through your actions carefully, planning your steps in advance?
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42. Do you have an aptitude for technical invention?
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43. Do you like coming up with vivid metaphors?
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No
44. Are you often found drawing?
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No
45. To make explanations simpler, do you often use graphs or formulas?
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No
46. Do you spend a lot of time writing poetry?
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No
47. When you need to remember something, do you often use abstract symbols or images that only you understand?
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No
48. Do your friends and acquaintances consider you overly thoughtful?
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49. Do you often have to do manual work that requires patience and accuracy?
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50. Do you have a good command of speech and the use of metaphors and original imagery?
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51. Do you often have vivid, interesting dreams full of exciting events?
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52. Do you find it easy to devise your own system of signs, even if only for your personal use?
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53. Do you enjoy talking about something in such a way that the words just flow?
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54. Do you often use abstract concepts in your speech?
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55. Do you usually manage to find your own, quite unconventional meaning in events?
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56. Is it easier for you to do something with your hands than to solve theoretical problems?
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No