A teacher wants to introduce a mindfulness approach to help students manage…
2026
A teacher wants to introduce a mindfulness approach to help students manage exam-related stress. She begins each class with a brief activity in which students close their eyes, focus on their breath, and silently notice bodily sensations without reacting. Which mindfulness component is most directly engaged in this scenario?
Answer: C. Attention — ConceptMindfulness involves deliberately attending to present-moment experience with openness and reduced reactivity. In the intention–attention–attitude…
- A.
Striving
- B.
Intention
- C.
Attention
- D.
Judgment
Attempted by 13 students.
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Correct answer: C
Concept
Mindfulness involves deliberately attending to present-moment experience with openness and reduced reactivity.
In the intention–attention–attitude framework, intention supplies the purpose, attention monitors moment-to-moment experience, and attitude describes the manner in which attention is applied.
Application
The students direct awareness to breathing and bodily sensations as they occur. This is present-moment monitoring, so the component most directly engaged is attention. Not reacting also reflects a mindful attitude, but that is not one of the offered labels.
Contrast
Striving is effort toward a desired outcome; mindfulness practice commonly emphasizes non-striving rather than chasing a state.
Intention is the purpose for practising, such as developing self-regulation; the activity here describes what students monitor.
Judgment evaluates or labels an experience; the instruction to notice without reacting moves away from evaluative judgment.
Cross-check
If the scenario focused on why the teacher or students chose to practise, intention would be central. Here it specifies where awareness is directed and maintained, which confirms attention.
Therefore, the answer is Attention.