mirroring

(noun)

A therapeutic technique in which the therapist reflects a client's words, feelings, or thoughts back to the client.

Related Terms

Examples of mirroring in the following topics:

  • Image Formation by Spherical Mirrors: Reflection and Sign Conventions

    • When you place an object in front of a mirror, you see the same object in the mirror.
    • This section will cover spherical mirrors.
    • In a concave mirror, the principal axis is a line that is perpendicular to the center of the mirror.
    • In convex mirrors, the principal axis is the same as in a plane or concave mirror, perpendicular to the center of the mirror.
    • The focal point is the same distance from the mirror as in a concave mirror.

  • Image Reflection by a Plane Mirror

    • The most common mirrors are flat and called plane mirrors.
    • When you place an object in front of a mirror, you see an image of the same object in the mirror.
    • In flat, or plane mirrors, the image is a virtual image, and is the same distance behind the mirror as the object is in front of the mirror.
    • Draw the object as an arrow in front of the mirror.
    • When this happens, we say the ray hit the mirror normally.

  • Problems

    • For argument's sake, let's first focus on the mirror on the left and consider that the mirror on the right is moving.
    • Now let's focus on the mirror on the right and consider that the mirror on the left is moving.
    • To start let's assume that the particle of mass m approaches the mirror on the left at the velocity of the mirror on the right.
    • The particle bounces off of the mirror.
    • The particle bounces off of the mirror.

  • The Law of Reflection and Its Consequences

    • Whenever you look into a mirror or squint at sunlight glinting off a lake, you are seeing a reflection.
    • When we see our reflection in a mirror , it appears that our image is actually behind the mirror -- we see the light coming from a direction determined by the law of reflection.
    • The angles are such that our image appears exactly the same distance behind the mirror as we stand away from the mirror.
    • An image in a mirror appears as though it is behind the mirror.
    • The two rays shown are those that strike the mirror at just the correct angles to be reflected into the eyes of the viewer.

  • The Telescope

    • Shortly after, people began to build them using mirrors and called them reflecting telescopes.
    • Reflecting telescopes were not practical because of the highly corrosive metals used to make mirrors until the introduction of silver-coated glass mirrors in 1857.
    • The object being observed is reflected by a curved primary mirror onto the focal plane.
    • (The distance from the mirror to the focal plane is called the focal length. ) A sensor could be located here to record the image, or a secondary mirror could be added to redirect the light to an eyepiece.
    • Catadioptric telescopes, such as the one shown in , combine mirrors and lenses to form an image.

  • Sculpture of the Aztecs

    • A unique and versatile form of sculpture was the carved mirror.
    • Obsidian mirrors in pre-Columbian times were fashioned from stone and served a number of uses, from decorative to spiritual.
    • Aztec mirrors were originally held in wooden frames and were decorated with perishable ornaments, such as feathers.
    • During the Spanish conquest, Hernán Cortés was known to have sent obsidian mirrors back to the royal court in Spain, where they became widely collected among the European aristocracy.
    • This mirror was carved from obsidian on a modern wooden base and is currently held in the Museum of the Americas, Madrid.

  • Symmetry and Centricity

    • Think of pitch symmetry in terms of a musical "mirror."
    • That is mirrored by the fourth violin (4.
    • Maintaining our mirror metaphor, this is the place in pitch space where the mirror exists.
    • In the case of the example above, the mirror is located at B4.
    • As above the lower strings have an ascending gesture that mirrors the descending gesture in the upper strings.

  • B.4 Chapter 4

    • For argument's sake, let's first focus on the mirror on the left and consider that the mirror on the right is moving.
    • Now let's focus on the mirror on the right and consider that the mirror on the left is moving.
    • To start let's assume that the particle of mass $m$ approaches the mirror on the left at the velocity of the mirror on the right.
    • The particle bounces off of the mirror.
    • The particle bounces off of the mirror.

  • Enantiomers and Stereoisomerism in Organic Compounds

    • Enantiomers are nonsuperimposable mirror images of one another.
    • They are mirror images.
    • They are not mirror images, however, and are thus diastereomers.
    • The hydroxyl at the 2 carbon differs between them, thus confirming that they are neither the same nor mirror images.
    • They share the same formula and bond connectivity, but are nonsuperimposable mirror images of one another.

  • Aberrations

    • An aberration, or distortion, is a failure of rays to converge at one focus because of limitations or defects in a lens or mirror.
    • An aberration is the failure of rays to converge at one focus because of limitations or defects in a lens or mirror.
    • The law of reflection is independent of wavelength, and therefore mirrors do not have this problem.
    • This is why it is advantageous to use mirrors in telescopes and other optical systems.
    • Different parts of a lens of a mirror do not refract or reflect the image to the same point, as shown in .