The development of the questionnaire "36 role-playing stories" is one of the possibilities of solving the problem of obsolescence of techniques. The new questionnaire is being developed in a new paradigm. Orientation is not on the attitude of the subject to the problem, but on his actions. The study was conducted on the basis of St. Petersburg state University (3rd year students of the faculty of psychology). 40 people took part, aged 19-20 years. Research methods: questionnaire to determine the level of neurotization and psychopathization UNP; questionnaire perfectionism Garanyan N. G., Kholmogorova A. B.; test included figures Gottschald; questionnaire "36 plots"; questionnaire Plutchik-Kellerman-Conte - (technique Life Style Index (LSI); California psychological questionnaire (CPI) and psychophysiological research methods. The data obtained suggest that there are normative and non-normative types of behavior. Normative-represent an adequate combination of actions. Abnormal (risky) behavior leads to illness. When designing tests, it is more expedient to determine not the attitude of a person to the problem, but the sequence of his actions, since this or that "attitude" can lead to completely different actions. Human behavior is formed under the influence of the "picture of the world" created by him, which is a non-equilibrium structure polarized by his system of values.