We use TOTE for eliciting personal subjective strategies. For example: learning.

Step 1: Establish context: “Consider a time when you learned something quickly and easily. #

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Step 2: Test: “How do you know when it is time to start learning? #

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Step 3: Operate: “What do you do, see, hear and feel - in order to learn? #

Step 4: Test: “How do you know if you have learned it? #

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Step 5: Exit: “What tells you that you have fully learned something? #

” Watch for eye accessing cues, predicates and calibration cues.