Category: C

One of the Big Five traits with characteristics such as ambitious, responsible, and hardworking.  

A form of meditation that includes mantra meditation in which the strategy employed is to focus or concentrate on one stimulus.  

One of three factors that comprise Antonovsky’s construct of sense of coherence that indicates the degree to which one can make cognitive sense of stimuli that one perceives.  

Keyes’s system that characterizes good mental health as a combination of the absence of mental illness and presence of hedonia/positive functioning.  

A model applied to the construct of stress that postulates that one’s stress reactions are a result of the mental filters one uses to think about the stressors.  

A programmed instruction in mantra meditation developed by Carrington.  

The process in active listening of asking for more information from the communicator in order to get a better understanding of the message being communicated. To clarify is to purify or make clear. This term is often used to describe the process of separating fat from water, meat juices, salt, and other substances, in order…

The defense strategy employed by the human immune system involving the natural killer cells, the granulocytes, the macrophages, and T cells inflaming, phagocytosing, and releasing toxic substances.  

Cognitions people use to explain why a person behaves a certain way.  

To cognitively maximize the perceived negative consequences of an event.