🔑 Key Definitions
Langer's Mindfulness: Cognitive approach - openness to novelty, alertness to distinction 🧠
Mindlessness: Operating on automatic pilot, trapped by categories 🤖
Bishop's Two-Component Model: Self-regulation of attention + orientation toward experience 📊
Mindlessness: Operating on automatic pilot, trapped by categories 🤖
Bishop's Two-Component Model: Self-regulation of attention + orientation toward experience 📊
👤 Important Figures
- Ellen Langer - Cognitive approach to mindfulness (1989, 1997) 🧠
- Bishop et al. (2004) - Two-component model 📊
- Brown & Ryan (2003) - Mindfulness as enhanced attention/awareness 👁️
📋 Langer's 5 Features of Mindfulness
- 1. Openness to novelty 🔓
- 2. Alertness to distinction 🔍
- 3. Sensitivity to different contexts 🌍
- 4. Implicit awareness of multiple perspectives 👥
- 5. Orientation in the present 📍
🧠 Key Terms
- MBSR - Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
- MBCT - Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
- DBT - Dialectical Behavior Therapy (incorporates mindfulness)
- ACT - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
💡 Exam Tips
- Langer = COGNITIVE approach 🧠
- Know all 5 of Langer's features of mindfulness 5️⃣
- Bishop = TWO components: attention + orientation 2️⃣
- Know therapy abbreviations: MBSR, MBCT, DBT, ACT 📋