BYU PSYCH 349 W19' WARREN EXAM
2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
100% PASS
How is mindfulness defined? - ANS Doesn't have to do with a certain mood or state of mind
"Mindfulness is single tasking"
Present moment awareness with acceptance
How can mindfulness be fostered/cultivated? - ANS meditation
What is mindfulness, and what is it not? - ANS Present moment Awareness with acceptance
It's beginnings are connected with Buddhist traditions and teachings
There has been a lot of research done on it.
NOT:
Having a blank mind
Becoming emotionless
Seeking bliss
Withdrawing from life
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, Escaping pain
Converting to a new religion
Autopilot
Past or future centered
Body and mind often aren't in the same place
Describe the different kinds of mindfulness meditation practices. - ANS Informal vs. formal:
informal = opportunities for this are infinite, simply bring to our attention what's happening in
our awareness. Formal = going to the metal gym. Many different possible objects of attention.
Open-monitoring: focuses the meditator's awareness on the feelings, thoughts or sensations
that are currently present in one's body, and there are two types: internal and external
Focused-Attention: involves sustaining selective attention moment by moment on a chosen
object, such the sensations of breathing or the sound. If other thoughts come you let them
pass. Strawberry activity
Lovingkindness: the wish that all beings be happy. Is another important idea in Buddhist
thought related to compassion. It is general love and goodwill; it is wishing happiness for
another person.
Deep-breathing
What are the benefits of meditation? - ANS Decreased anxiety/depression
Cultivation of compassion, love, and altruism
Decreases in pain and insomnia
Improved health and immune system functioning
What are the basic assumptions, strategies, and goals in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
(ACT)? - ANS It's not about symptom reduction, but acceptance of emotions. It is a system
that has the intention of creating rich and meaningful lives.
Mind is neither friend nor enemy: it just does what it does
Mind is a blank canvas on which thoughts and feelings appear.
Assumes the mind is a complex set of cognitive processes.
pg. 2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED
2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
100% PASS
How is mindfulness defined? - ANS Doesn't have to do with a certain mood or state of mind
"Mindfulness is single tasking"
Present moment awareness with acceptance
How can mindfulness be fostered/cultivated? - ANS meditation
What is mindfulness, and what is it not? - ANS Present moment Awareness with acceptance
It's beginnings are connected with Buddhist traditions and teachings
There has been a lot of research done on it.
NOT:
Having a blank mind
Becoming emotionless
Seeking bliss
Withdrawing from life
pg. 1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED
, Escaping pain
Converting to a new religion
Autopilot
Past or future centered
Body and mind often aren't in the same place
Describe the different kinds of mindfulness meditation practices. - ANS Informal vs. formal:
informal = opportunities for this are infinite, simply bring to our attention what's happening in
our awareness. Formal = going to the metal gym. Many different possible objects of attention.
Open-monitoring: focuses the meditator's awareness on the feelings, thoughts or sensations
that are currently present in one's body, and there are two types: internal and external
Focused-Attention: involves sustaining selective attention moment by moment on a chosen
object, such the sensations of breathing or the sound. If other thoughts come you let them
pass. Strawberry activity
Lovingkindness: the wish that all beings be happy. Is another important idea in Buddhist
thought related to compassion. It is general love and goodwill; it is wishing happiness for
another person.
Deep-breathing
What are the benefits of meditation? - ANS Decreased anxiety/depression
Cultivation of compassion, love, and altruism
Decreases in pain and insomnia
Improved health and immune system functioning
What are the basic assumptions, strategies, and goals in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
(ACT)? - ANS It's not about symptom reduction, but acceptance of emotions. It is a system
that has the intention of creating rich and meaningful lives.
Mind is neither friend nor enemy: it just does what it does
Mind is a blank canvas on which thoughts and feelings appear.
Assumes the mind is a complex set of cognitive processes.
pg. 2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED
