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Active imagination refers to a technique of analysis in which individuals actively focus on experiences or images (in dreams or fantasy), reporting changes in these images or experiences as they concentrate on them.

Active insufficiency is the point reached when a muscle becomes shortened to the point that it cannot generate or maintain active tension.

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.