Glossary A

Active intermodal mapping refers to the ability to integrate information from two (2) senses. It is Meltzoff and Moore's account of neonatal cognitive abilities.

Active life expectancy refers to the age to which one person can expect to live independently.

Active Listening refers to feature of client-centered therapy that involves empathetic listening, by which the therapist echoes, restates, and clarifies what the client says.

Active listening refers to a communication and listening technique in which the listener uses non-verbal communication, such as nodding or eye contact, to signal that he or she is attentive to the speaker. Active listening is making oneself available to another without interference from one's own concerns; being fully attentive to the needs and concerns of the others.

Active mind refers to a mind that transforms, interprets, understands, or values physical experience. The rationalists assume an active mind. Moreover, it is a mind equipped with categories or operations that are used to analyze, organize, or modify sensory information and to discover abstract concepts or principles not contained within sensory experience.

Active phase refers to a period in the course of Schizophrenia in which psychotic symptoms are present.

Deutsch: Aktive Verarbeitung / Español: Procesamiento activo / Português: Processamento ativo / Français: Traitement actif / Italiano: Elaborazione attiva /

Active processing refers to a collection of activities that includes relating new information to information we have in permanent memory, asking questions of the material, and writing summaries or outlines of the material.

Active reason refers to the faculty of the soul that searches for the essences or abstract concepts that manifest themselves in the empirical world according to Aristotle. Aristotle thought that the active reason part of the soul was immortal.